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Soraima Martha

Dutch Antillean athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ33086194 ↗
Source-derived summary

Soraima Martha (born 10 January 1967) is a sprinter who represented the Netherlands Antilles. She competed in the women's 200 metres at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Soraima Martha” enters the record as dutch Antillean athlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Soraima, Martha and Dutch can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1967, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-01-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Soraima, Martha and Dutch.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

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 Oct 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q33086194. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1967 and 1984.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Soraima Martha” 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.