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1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships

figure skating competition

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ20053045 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships were held on December 15–20, 1981 in Oberstdorf, West Germany. Commonly called "World Juniors" and "Junior Worlds", the event determined the World Junior champions in the disciplines of men's singles, ladies' singles, pair skating, and ice dancing.

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“1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships” enters the record as figure skating competition. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what World, Junior and Figure can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1982, 1981—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around World, Junior and Figure.
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“1982 World Junior Figure Skating Championships” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, World, Junior and Figure provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q20053045. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 1981.

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This entry incorporates text from “1982 World Junior 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.