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Henri Coosemans

Belgian basketball player (born 1922)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ3784842 ↗
Source-derived summary

Henri Guillaume Coosemans (10 January 1922 – 11 June 2008) was a Belgian basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1952 Summer Olympics. Coosemans died in Forest, Belgium on 11 June 2008, at the age of 86.

Editorial summary

“Henri Coosemans” enters the record as belgian basketball player (born 1922). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Henri, Coosemans and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1922, 2008, 1948, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922-01-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Henri, Coosemans and Belgian.
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Why this record matters

“Henri Coosemans” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Henri, Coosemans and Belgian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3784842. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922, 2008, 1948 and 1952.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Henri Coosemans” 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.