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Åke Andersson (athlete)

Swedish long-distance runner (1925-2005)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ5716132 ↗
Source-derived summary

Åke Andersson (2 September 1925 – 3 March 2005) was a Swedish long-distance runner who competed in the 1952 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Åke Andersson (athlete)” as swedish long-distance runner (1925-2005). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1925, 2005, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1925-09-02. The account is most persuasive where Andersson, athlete and Swedish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swedish long-distance runner (1925-2005). Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Nov 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5716132. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1925, 2005 and 1952.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “Åke Andersson (athlete)” 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.