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Pieter Jacobszoon

Dutch swimmer (1903-1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ5411841 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pieter Jacobszoon (23 August 1903 – 14 February 1972) was a Dutch swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Pieter Jacobszoon” is dutch swimmer (1903-1972). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Pieter, Jacobszoon and Dutch, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1903, 1972, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Pieter, Jacobszoon and Dutch is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Pieter Jacobszoon” 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.