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Yousef Karam

Kuwaiti sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ50310796 ↗
Source-derived summary

Youssef Mohammed Karam Taher (born 15 July 1993) is a Kuwaiti sprinter specialising in the 400 metres and 400 metres hurdles. He represented his country at the 2018 World Indoor Championships reaching the semifinals.

Editorial summary

“Yousef Karam” enters the record as kuwaiti sprinter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yousef, Karam and Kuwaiti can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1993, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1993-07-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yousef, Karam and Kuwaiti.
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Why this record matters

“Yousef Karam” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Yousef, Karam and Kuwaiti provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q50310796. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1993 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yousef Karam” 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.