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Jasem Al-Dowaila

Kuwaiti hurdler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ11866204 ↗
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Jasem Al-Dowaila (born 9 March 1963) is a Kuwaiti hurdler. He competed in the 400 metres hurdles at the 1984 Summer Olympics and the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jasem Al-Dowaila” as kuwaiti hurdler. 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—1963, 1984, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-03-09. The account is most persuasive where Jasem, Al-Dowaila and Kuwaiti can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as kuwaiti hurdler. 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 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11866204. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1984 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jasem Al-Dowaila” 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.