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Spain at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 13, 2026
Entity authorityQ14325889 ↗
Source-derived summary

Spain competed at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships in Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain between 19 July and 4 August 2013 as the host nation.

Medalists

Diving

Spain qualified 5 quota places for the following diving events.

Men

Women

Open water swimming

Spain qualified five quota places for the following events in open water swimming:

Swimming

Spanish swimmers achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the A-standard entry time, and 1 at the B-standard):

Men

Women

Synchronized swimming

Spain qualified 12 quota places for each of the following synchronized swimming events.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Spain at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships” is sporting event delegation. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Spain, World and Aquatics, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Spain, World and Aquatics is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “sporting event delegation” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 13, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14325889. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

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How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Spain at the 2013 World Aquatics Championships” 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.