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Jessica Eliza Beer

fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ6187181 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jessica Eliza Beer (born 20 October 1979) is a New Zealand fencer. As the first female fencer to compete for New Zealand at the Olympics, Beer competed in the women's individual épée event at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Jessica Eliza Beer” as fencer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Jessica, Eliza and Beer.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1979, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-10-20. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Jessica, Eliza and Beer providing the first useful test.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6187181. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979 and 2004.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jessica Eliza Beer” 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.