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Jean-Paul Gomez

French athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ19956048 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jean-Paul Gomez (born 8 May 1945) is a French long-distance runner. He competed in the men's 10,000 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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“Jean-Paul Gomez” enters the record as french athletics competitor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jean-Paul, Gomez and French 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—1945, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-05-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jean-Paul, Gomez and French.
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“Jean-Paul Gomez” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jean-Paul, Gomez and French provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19956048. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jean-Paul Gomez” 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.