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Gustav Almgren

fencer (1906–1936)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ1644488 ↗
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Gustav Almgren (6 November 1906 – 31 August 1936) was a Swedish fencer. He won a silver medal in the team épée event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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“Gustav Almgren” enters the record as fencer (1906–1936). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Gustav, Almgren and fencer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1906, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1906-11-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Gustav, Almgren and fencer.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1644488. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1906 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Gustav Almgren” 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.