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Sweden at the World Athletics Championships

sporting event delegation

Layered newspapers, civic records and oral-history reels arranged as chronological evidence
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ5404868 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sweden has participated in all World Athletics Championships since the beginning in 1983. Sweden's second largest city, Gothenburg, hosted the event in 1995.

Editorial summary

“Sweden at the World Athletics Championships” enters the record as sporting event delegation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sweden, World and Athletics can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 1995—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sweden, World and Athletics.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Sweden at the World Athletics Championships” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sweden, World and Athletics provides the most credible route into that argument.

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 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5404868. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983 and 1995.

Critical limits

Institutional narratives can privilege the records that survived while minimizing voices that were never formally collected. 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.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

Best used for
  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Sweden at the World Athletics Championships”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Sweden at the World Athletics Championships primary sources, Sweden at the World Athletics Championships archive and Sweden research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Sweden at the World Athletics Championships”?
  2. Who created the surviving record, and for what administrative purpose?
  3. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Sweden at the World Athletics 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.