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Tommy Lalande

South African long-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ29626897 ↗
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Thomas Forcer Lalande (31 December 1904 – 31 January 1983) was a South African long-distance runner who competed at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Biography

Lalande finished third behind Donald Robertson (athlete) in the marathon event at the 1934 AAA Championships.

At the 1936 Olympic Games in Berlin, he competed in the marathon.

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The public source identifies “Tommy Lalande” as south African long-distance runner. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tommy, Lalande and South.

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—1904, 1983, 1936, 1934—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tommy, Lalande and South providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Tommy Lalande” 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.