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Salvador Cardona

Spanish road bicycle racer (1901–1985)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ2706231 ↗
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Salvador Cardona Balbastre (12 January 1901 - 15 January 1985) was a Spanish professional road racing cyclist from Alfauir. In 1929 he became the first Spanish road bicycle racer to win a stage in Tour de France.

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The public source identifies “Salvador Cardona” as spanish road bicycle racer (1901–1985). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Salvador, Cardona and Spanish.

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—1901, 1985, 1929—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901-01-12. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Salvador, Cardona and Spanish providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q2706231. VIAF identifies the subject as 6535157040176767040000. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1901, 1985 and 1929.

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This entry incorporates text from “Salvador Cardona” 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.