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Greta Carlsson

Swedish swimmer (1898-1980)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4941950 ↗
Source-derived summary

Greta Carlsson (later Nygren, July 7, 1898 – March 19, 1980) was a Swedish freestyle swimmer who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics.

In 1912 she was part of the Swedish team which finished fourth in the 4 x 100 metre freestyle relay event at the 1912 Summer Olympics. In the solo 100 metre freestyle competition she was eliminated in the first round.

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Sources

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Greta Carlsson". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2010-01-12.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Greta Carlsson” is swedish swimmer (1898-1980). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Greta, Carlsson and Swedish, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1898, 1980, 1912, 2010—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1898-07-07, 1898—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. For this dossier, Greta, Carlsson and Swedish is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4941950. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1898, 1980, 1912 and 2010.

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This entry incorporates text from “Greta Carlsson” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.