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Pierre Sagna (basketball)

Senegalese basketball player (1950–2026)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ17556373 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pierre Martin Sagna (11 June 1950 – 16 August 2026) was a Senegalese basketball player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Pierre Sagna (basketball)” enters the record as senegalese basketball player (1950–2026). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pierre, Sagna and basketball can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2026, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-06-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pierre, Sagna and basketball.
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Why this record matters

“Pierre Sagna (basketball)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Pierre, Sagna and basketball provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Sep 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17556373. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950, 2026 and 1972.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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This entry incorporates text from “Pierre Sagna (basketball)” 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.