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Zenji Okuzawa

Japanese Olympian

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ43400051 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zenji Okuzawa (奥沢 善二, Okuzawa Zenji; 26 November 1937 – 5 July 2021) was a Japanese middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 3000 metres steeplechase at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Zenji Okuzawa” enters the record as japanese Olympian. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zenji, Okuzawa and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2021, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-11-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zenji, Okuzawa and Japanese.
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Why this record matters

“Zenji Okuzawa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zenji, Okuzawa and Japanese 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 Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q43400051. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1937, 2021 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zenji Okuzawa” 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.