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Hermin Joseph

Dominican athletics competitor (born 1964)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ16195611 ↗
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Hermin Joseph (born 1964) is a retired Dominican sprinter. She was the first woman to represent Dominica at the Olympics.

Her greatest international achievement was a sixth place at the 1994 Commonwealth Games in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada. At the World Championships she reached the quarter-finals of the 200 metres competition in 1993 and of the 100 metres competition in 1995.

She also competed at the 1996 Summer Olympics, which was the first Olympic participation of the Caribbean country.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Hermin Joseph” as dominican athletics competitor (born 1964). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1964, 1994, 1993, 1995—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1964-04-13. The account is most persuasive where Hermin, Joseph and Dominican can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as dominican athletics competitor (born 1964). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16195611. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1964, 1994, 1993 and 1995.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hermin Joseph” 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.