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Khalid Boulami

Moroccan athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ722301 ↗
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Khalid Boulami (born Safi, Morocco, August 7, 1969) is a Moroccan long-distance runner who won a bronze medal in the 5000 metres at the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta.

At the World Championships, he won two silver medals in the 5000 metres in 1995 and 1997.

He is the older brother of Brahim Boulami.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Khalid Boulami” as moroccan athletics competitor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1969, 1996, 1995, 1997—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-08-07. The account is most persuasive where Khalid, Boulami and Moroccan can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as moroccan athletics competitor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Aug 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q722301. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1996, 1995 and 1997.

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This entry incorporates text from “Khalid Boulami” 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.