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Mohamed El-Sahrawi

Egyptian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 27, 2024
Entity authorityQ56254088 ↗
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Mohamed El-Sahrawi (born 2 February 1926) was an Egyptian rower. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1952 Summer Olympics.

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“Mohamed El-Sahrawi” enters the record as egyptian rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mohamed, El-Sahrawi and Egyptian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1926, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1926-02-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mohamed, El-Sahrawi and Egyptian.
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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 27, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q56254088. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1926 and 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mohamed El-Sahrawi” 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.