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Mark Swanson

United States Virgin Islands sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 23, 2024
Entity authorityQ96584032 ↗
Source-derived summary

Mark Elston Swanson (born September 21, 1952) is a sailor who represented the United States Virgin Islands. He competed in the Finn event at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Mark Swanson” as united States Virgin Islands sailor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Mark, Swanson and United.

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—1952, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1952-09-21. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Mark, Swanson and United providing the first useful test.
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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 Nov 23, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q96584032. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Swanson” 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.