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Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet

Sports shooting at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2025
Entity authorityQ17510219 ↗
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The mixed skeet was a shooting sports event held as part of the Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics programme. It was the third appearance of the event. The competition was held on 22 to 24 July 1976 at the shooting ranges in Montreal. 68 shooters from 39 nations competed.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet” as sports shooting at the Olympics. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1976—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Shooting, Summer and Olympics can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as sports shooting at the Olympics. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 20, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q17510219. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Shooting at the 1976 Summer Olympics – Mixed skeet” 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.