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Sandra DeLaRiva

American handball player

Correspondence, annotated notebooks and portrait silhouettes prepared for research
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7416589 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sandra De la Riva Repede (born November 26, 1961) is an American former handball player who competed in the 1984 Summer Olympics and in the 1988 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Sandra DeLaRiva” enters the record as american handball player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sandra, DeLaRiva and American can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1984, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-11-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sandra, DeLaRiva and American.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sandra DeLaRiva” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sandra, DeLaRiva and American provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7416589. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961, 1984 and 1988.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Read biographical claims against dates, named institutions and the cited references. Distinguish a subject’s later reputation from evidence produced during their lifetime.

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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Personal papers, civil or court records, institutional files and the scholarship cited by the source.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sandra DeLaRiva”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sandra DeLaRiva primary sources, Sandra DeLaRiva archive and Sandra research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sandra DeLaRiva”?
  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Sandra DeLaRiva” 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.