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Sarah Gibson (swimmer)

American swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ33423914 ↗
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Sarah Gibson (born April 20, 1995) is an American swimmer who completed her college career at Texas A&M University in 2017. She competed in the women's 100 metre butterfly event at the 2017 World Aquatics Championships.

Gibson, who grew up in San Antonio, was named the NCAA Division I Academic All-American across all Division I sports for the 2016–17 school year by the College Sports Information Directors of America.

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“Sarah Gibson (swimmer)” enters the record as american swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sarah, Gibson and swimmer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1995, 2017, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1995-04-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sarah, Gibson and swimmer.
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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 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q33423914. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1995, 2017 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sarah Gibson (swimmer)” 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.