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1956 European Figure Skating Championships

figure skating competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 9, 2025
Entity authorityQ1318159 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1956 European Figure Skating Championships were held on January 19–21, 1956 in Paris, France. Elite senior-level figure skaters from European ISU member nations competed for the title of European Champion in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing. It was the first time Soviet skaters competed internationally since the Russian Revolution.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1956 European Figure Skating Championships” is figure skating competition. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through European, Figure and Skating, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1956—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, European, Figure and Skating is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “figure skating competition” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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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 Aug 9, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1318159. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “1956 European Figure Skating Championships” 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.