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Laurent Béghin

French rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ23199296 ↗
Source-derived summary

Laurent Béghin (born 21 February 1976) is a well-known French rower.He won the world championship in 1999 in Men's coxless four. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2000 Summer Olympics. He detains multiple prestigious titles.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Laurent Béghin” is french rower. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Laurent, Béghin and French, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1976, 1999, 2000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-02-21. For this dossier, Laurent, Béghin and French is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “french rower” 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 Aug 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q23199296. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 1999 and 2000.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Laurent Béghin” 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.