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Laos at the 2023 SEA Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2025
Entity authorityQ118905471 ↗
Source-derived summary

Laos participated at the 32nd Southeast Asian Games which was held from 5 to 16 May 2023 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia. Laos delegation to the 2023 Southeast Asian Games composed of 576 athletes, as well as 80 officials and coaches, bringing the total member of the contingent to 656. Laotian athletes competed in 32 out of 46 events, eyeing 5 gold medals which they had already surpassed.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Laos at the 2023 SEA Games” as sporting event delegation. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2023—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Laos, Games and sporting can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as sporting event delegation. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 6, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q118905471. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2023.

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This entry incorporates text from “Laos at the 2023 SEA Games” 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.