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U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ14610913 ↗
Source-derived summary

The United States Virgin Islands competed at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics in Moscow, Russia, from 10–18 August 2013. Eddie Lovett was the Virgin Islands' sole athlete, competing in the 110m hurdles. Lovett was eliminated in the heats.

Editorial summary

“U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics” enters the record as sporting event delegation. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Virgin, Islands and World 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—2013—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Virgin, Islands and World.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Virgin, Islands and World provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q14610913. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2013.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. 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.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics primary sources, U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics archive and Virgin 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 “U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics”?
  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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This entry incorporates text from “U.S. Virgin Islands at the 2013 World Championships in Athletics” 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.