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Juan Torres (weightlifter)

Cuban weightlifter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ85772240 ↗
Source-derived summary

Juan Torres (born 23 June 1936) is a Cuban weightlifter. He competed in the men's lightweight event at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Juan Torres (weightlifter)” is cuban weightlifter. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Juan, Torres and weightlifter, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1936, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-06-23. For this dossier, Juan, Torres and weightlifter is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “cuban weightlifter” 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

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 Jun 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q85772240. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1936 and 1960.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Juan Torres (weightlifter)” 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.