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Thomas Byström

equestrian (1893-1979)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 19, 2024
Entity authorityQ3434392 ↗
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Thomas Byström (November 27, 1893 – July 22, 1979) was a Swedish horse rider who competed in the 1932 Summer Olympics. In 1932 he won the silver medal as member of the Swedish dressage team after finishing fourth with his horse Gulliver in the individual dressage competition.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Thomas Byström” as equestrian (1893-1979). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1893, 1979, 1932—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-11-27. The account is most persuasive where Thomas, Byström and equestrian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as equestrian (1893-1979). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Nov 19, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q3434392. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1979 and 1932.

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This entry incorporates text from “Thomas Byström” 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.