starting blocks

device used in the sport of track and field by sprint athletes
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starting blocks

Summary

starting blocks ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • starting blocks is credited with the discovery of Charlie Booth[2].
  • starting blocks's image is recorded as PressureSensitiveStartingBlocks.jpg[3].
  • starting blocks's subclass of is recorded as sports equipment[4].
  • starting blocks's Commons category is recorded as Starting blocks[5].
  • starting blocks's pronunciation audio is recorded as LL-Q150 (fra)-Mecanautes-starting-block.wav[6].
  • starting blocks's time of discovery or invention is recorded as +1929-00-00T00:00:00Z[7].
  • starting blocks's sport is recorded as athletics[8].
  • starting blocks's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0c00b_8[9].
  • starting blocks's different from is recorded as starting gate[10].
  • starting blocks's Quora topic ID is recorded as Starting-Blocks[11].
  • starting blocks's Online PWN Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 3878433[12].
  • starting blocks's Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging is recorded as 14676[13].

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Works and Contributions

starting blocks is credited with the discovery of Charlie Booth[2].

Why It Matters

starting blocks ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (80 views/month).[1] It has Wikipedia articles in 11 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[14] It is known by 9 alternative names across languages and contexts.[15]

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [2] . wikidata.org.
  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
  5. [6] . lingualibre.org. lingualibre.org. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [7] . wikidata.org.
  7. [8] . wikidata.org.
  8. [9] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  9. [10] . wikidata.org.
  10. [11] . Quora. wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [14] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [15] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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