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Leslie Cole (sprinter)

American sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ3236691 ↗
Source-derived summary

Leslie Cole (born February 16, 1987) is an American sprint athlete. She was part of the USA team that won the silver medal at the 2012 IAAF World Indoor Championships.

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“Leslie Cole (sprinter)” enters the record as american sprinter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Leslie, Cole and sprinter can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1987, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-02-16. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Leslie, Cole and sprinter.
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“Leslie Cole (sprinter)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Leslie, Cole and sprinter provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3236691. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Leslie Cole (sprinter)” 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.