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Tom Elmer

Swiss athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ97099952 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tom Elmer (born 1 April 1997) is a Swiss middle-distance runner who competes for On. He competed in the 1500 metres at the 2023 World Athletics Championships, reaching the semi-finals. Between 2019 and 2023, Elmer became the Swiss national champion in the 1500 meters run outdoors every year and indoors in 2020, 2022 and 2023. In 2022 he also won the 3000 metres at the indoor championships.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tom Elmer” as swiss athletics competitor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 1500, 2023, 2019—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-04-01. The account is most persuasive where Elmer, Swiss and athletics can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swiss athletics competitor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q97099952. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 1500, 2023 and 2019.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tom Elmer” 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.