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1950 Star World Championship

sailing competition in Chicago, United States

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ16244100 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1950 Star World Championship was held in Chicago, United States in 1950.

Results

Source:

Legend: DNS – Did not start; DSA – Disabled; DSQ – Disqualified; WDR – Withdrew;

References

"WORLD'S CHAMPIONSHIP RESULTS 1945 - 1957". starclass.org. Retrieved February 25, 2014.

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The public source identifies “1950 Star World Championship” as sailing competition in Chicago, United States. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Star, World and Championship.

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—1950, 1945, 1957, 2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Star, World and Championship providing the first useful test.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16244100. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1950, 1945, 1957 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “1950 Star World Championship” 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.