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Liliana Năstase

Romanian athletics competitor (born 1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ457558 ↗
Source-derived summary

Liliana Năstase (later Alexandru, born 1 August 1962) is a retired Romanian heptathlete. She won the world indoor title in 1993 and placed fourth at the 1992 Olympics, only 30 points behind the bronze medalist.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Liliana Năstase” is romanian athletics competitor (born 1962). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Liliana, Năstase and Romanian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1962, 1993, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-08-01. For this dossier, Liliana, Năstase and Romanian is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “romanian athletics competitor (born 1962)” 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

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q457558. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1993 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liliana Năstase” 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.