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Riccardo De Luca

modern pentathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ3430366 ↗
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Riccardo De Luca (born 22 March 1986) is an Italian modern pentathlete. De Luca is an athlete of the Centro Sportivo Carabinieri.

Biography

He won a team gold medal at the 2012 World Championships and placed nine and fifth at the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, respectively. De Luca took up pentathlon in 1999. He works as a police officer.

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“Riccardo De Luca” enters the record as modern pentathlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Riccardo, Luca and modern can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1986, 2012, 2016, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1986-03-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Riccardo, Luca and modern.
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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q3430366. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1986, 2012, 2016 and 1999.

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This entry incorporates text from “Riccardo De Luca” 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.