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Peter Mwita

Tanzanian sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ31827703 ↗
Source-derived summary

Peter Mwita Mokam (born 1948) is a Tanzanian sprinter. He competed in the men's 100 metres at the 1980 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Peter Mwita” as tanzanian sprinter. 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—1948, 1980—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1960, 1960-01-01—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Peter, Mwita and Tanzanian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as tanzanian sprinter. 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 Sep 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q31827703. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1980.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Mwita” 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.