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Argentina at the 1988 Summer Olympics

country entered in olympic summer games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ495249 ↗
Source-derived summary

Argentina competed at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, South Korea. 118 competitors, 93 men and 25 women, took part in 53 events in 18 sports. The country claimed Olympic medals for the first time since 1972.

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Competitors

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Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Argentina at the 1988 Summer Olympics” as country entered in olympic summer games. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1988, 1972—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Argentina, Summer and Olympics 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 country entered in olympic summer games. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q495249. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1988 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Argentina at the 1988 Summer Olympics” 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.