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Marieme Lo

Senegalese basketball player (born 1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ6763167 ↗
Source-derived summary

Marieme Lo (born 10 September 1972) is a Senegalese former basketball player who competed in the 2000 Summer Olympics. She was born in Dakar. In 2016, she was named to the Ohio Basketball Hall of Fame.

Early life and education

Marieme Lo was born on 10 September 1972 in Dakar, Senegal. Lo graduated from Central State University (Wilberforce, Ohio, United States) where she majored in computer information systems.

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The public source identifies “Marieme Lo” as senegalese basketball player (born 1972). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Marieme, Senegalese and basketball.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1972, 2000, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1972-09-10. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Marieme, Senegalese and basketball providing the first useful test.
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Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6763167. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1972, 2000 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Marieme Lo” 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.