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Katsuaki Tashiro

modern pentathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ6378059 ↗
Source-derived summary

Katsuaki Tashiro (田代 勝明, Tashiro Katsuaki; born 6 November 1937) is a Japanese modern pentathlete. He competed at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

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“Katsuaki Tashiro” enters the record as modern pentathlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Katsuaki, Tashiro and modern can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1937, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-11-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Katsuaki, Tashiro and modern.
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“Katsuaki Tashiro” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Katsuaki, Tashiro and modern provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6378059. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Katsuaki Tashiro” 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.