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Sonja Castelein

Belgian middle-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ1881204 ↗
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Sonja Castelein (born 10 June 1954) is a Belgian middle-distance runner. She competed in the women's 1500 metres at the 1976 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Sonja Castelein” as belgian middle-distance runner. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Sonja, Castelein and Belgian.

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—1954, 1500, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-06-10. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sonja, Castelein and Belgian providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1881204. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954, 1500 and 1976.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sonja Castelein” 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.