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Radu Gavrilaș

Romanian athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ47498400 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radu Gavrilaș (born 5 April 1952) is a Romanian athlete. He competed in the men's decathlon at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Radu Gavrilaș” as romanian athletics competitor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952, 1972—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1952-01-01, 1952-04-05—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. The account is most persuasive where Radu, Gavrilaș and Romanian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as romanian athletics competitor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Jun 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47498400. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1952 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Radu Gavrilaș” 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.