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Guðmundur Ingólfsson

Icelandic swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ26923836 ↗
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Guðmundur Ármann Ingólfsson (28 April 1929 – 13 August 1987) was an Icelandic swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre backstroke at the 1948 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Guðmundur Ingólfsson” as icelandic swimmer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1929, 1987, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-04-28. The account is most persuasive where Guðmundur, Ingólfsson and Icelandic can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as icelandic swimmer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26923836. VIAF identifies the subject as 9474152140011911100005. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1987 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Guðmundur Ingólfsson” 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.