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Iraq at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 12, 2024
Entity authorityQ48608245 ↗
Source-derived summary

Iraq competed at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat, Turkmenistan from September 17 to 27. Iraq won 13 medals during the multi-sport event including 4 gold medals. Iraq sent a delegation consisting of 51 participants for the event.

3x3 Basketball

Iraq men's national 3x3 basketball team secured the silver medal after emerging as the runners-up in the men's category by beating Qatar with a score of 22-12 in the finals.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Iraq at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games” is sporting event delegation. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Iraq, Asian and Indoor, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Iraq, Asian and Indoor is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “sporting event delegation” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 12, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q48608245. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2017.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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 “Iraq at the 2017 Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games” 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.