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Rashid Al-Jirbi

Emirati sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ21808636 ↗
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Rashid Ismail Al-Jirbi (راشد اسماعيل الجربي) (born 1961) is an Emirati former sprinter.

At the 1981 Arab Athletics Championships in Tunis he won the silver medal in the 100 metres and the silver medal in the 100 metres.

He competed in the men's 400 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Rashid Al-Jirbi” as emirati sprinter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1981, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961. The account is most persuasive where Rashid, Al-Jirbi and Emirati can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as emirati sprinter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21808636. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1981 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rashid Al-Jirbi” 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.