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Liz Thurley

fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ6660309 ↗
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Liz Thurley (née Wood) (born 6 January 1959) is a British fencer. She competed in the women's individual and team foil events at the 1984 and 1988 Summer Olympics.

She was a six times British champion in the foil at the British Fencing Championships, twice under her maiden name of Liz Wood and four times as Liz Thurley.

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

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1959, 1984, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-01-06. The account is most persuasive where Thurley 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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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6660309. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959, 1984 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liz Thurley” 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.