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Gerry Moro

Canadian pole vaulter and decathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ26924470 ↗
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Guerrino "Gerry" Moro (born 17 April 1943) is a Canadian athlete. He competed in the decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics and the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Moro competed for the Oregon Ducks track and field team in the NCAA.

In 1966, he competed in the men's decathlon at the 1966 British Empire and Commonwealth Games held in Kingston, Jamaica.

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The public source identifies “Gerry Moro” as canadian pole vaulter and decathlete. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Gerry, Moro and Canadian.

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—1943, 1964, 1972, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1943-04-17. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Gerry, Moro and Canadian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gerry Moro” 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.