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Jovana Vesović

Serbian volleyball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ959891 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jovana Janković (Serbian: Јована Јанковић, née Vesović; born 21 June 1987) is a Serbian volleyball player who competed in the 2008 and 2012 Summer Olympics. She also won gold and silver medal at the European championship with the national team.

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jovana Vesović". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 4 December 2016. Retrieved 2 May 2010.

"TUR W: Serbian attacker in Turkey". worldofvolley.com. 7 February 2018.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jovana Vesović” as serbian volleyball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2008, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-06-21. The account is most persuasive where Jovana, Vesović and Serbian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as serbian volleyball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q959891. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2008, 2012 and 2016.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jovana Vesović”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jovana Vesović primary sources, Jovana Vesović archive and Jovana 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jovana Vesović” 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.