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Rosa Sicari

Italian paralympian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ110286810 ↗
Source-derived summary

Rosa Sicari (1948 – 2007) was an Italian Paralympian who competed in track and field, swimming and table tennis. She was one of the first athletes from Calabria to compete at the Paralympic Games.

She competed at the 1972 Summer Paralympics winning a gold medal in table tennis, and bronze medal, 1976 Summer Paralympics, and 1980 Summer Paralympics, winning a bronze medal in table tennis.

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“Rosa Sicari” enters the record as italian paralympian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rosa, Sicari and Italian 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—1948, 2007, 1972, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rosa, Sicari and Italian.
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“Rosa Sicari” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Rosa, Sicari and Italian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q110286810. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948, 2007, 1972 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rosa Sicari” 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.