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Sean Gunn (swimmer)

Zimbabwean swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ26252397 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sean Michael Gunn (born 23 December 1993) is a Zimbabwean swimmer. He competed in the men's 100 metre freestyle event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

Personal life

In 2024, Gunn came out as a gay man.

Editorial summary

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

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1993, 2016, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-12-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sean, Gunn and swimmer.
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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 Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q26252397. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993, 2016 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sean Gunn (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.