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1962 Tour de Suisse

cycling race

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 14, 2025
Entity authorityQ3996119 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1962 Tour de Suisse was the 26th edition of the Tour de Suisse cycle race and was held from 14 June to 20 June 1962. The race started and finished in Zürich. The race was won by Hans Junkermann of the Torpedo team.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “1962 Tour de Suisse” as cycling race. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. The account is most persuasive where Tour, Suisse and cycling can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as cycling race. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Sep 14, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3996119. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “1962 Tour de Suisse” 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.