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Tracey Oliver

Australian swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7831258
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Tracey Leanne Oliver (born 26 May 1975), is a Paralympic swimming competitor from Australia. She was in born in Bundaberg, Queensland. At the 1992 Barcelona Games, she won a bronze medal in Women's 50 m Freestyle S7 event. She also competed in Women's 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke S7 events. She won a silver medal at the 1996 Atlanta Games in the Women's 50 m Freestyle S7 event and also competed in the Women's 100m Freestyle and 100m Backstroke S7 events . She was an Australian Institute of Sport Athlete with a Disability scholar holder from 1994 to 1995. She works as a swimming coach in Bundaberg.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Tracey Oliver” as australian swimmer. 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—1975, 1992, 1996, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-05-26. The account is most persuasive where Tracey, Oliver and Australian can be independently traced.
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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 Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7831258. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 1992, 1996 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from Tracey Oliver” 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.