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1956 World Figure Skating Championships

Annual figure skating competition held in 1956

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 8, 2025
Entity authoritySource title only
Source-derived summary

The World Figure Skating Championships is an annual figure skating competition sanctioned by the International Skating Union in which figure skaters compete for the title of World Champion.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “1956 World Figure Skating Championships” as annual figure skating competition held in 1956. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around World, Figure and Skating.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current 28-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with World, Figure and Skating providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “1956 World Figure Skating Championships”, the useful work is to connect “annual figure skating competition held in 1956” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

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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 Jul 8, 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “1956 World 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.