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Linda Strachan

fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ6551998 ↗
Source-derived summary

Linda Strachan BEM (born 18 October 1961) is a British fencer. She competed in the women's foil events at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics. In June 2015, she was awarded with the British Empire Medal in the Queen's Birthday Honours.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Linda Strachan” as fencer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1961, 1988, 1992, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-10-18. The account is most persuasive where Linda, Strachan and fencer can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as fencer. 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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6551998. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1988, 1992 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Linda Strachan” 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.