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2004–05 synchronized skating season

competitive synchronized skating year from 2004/7/1 to 2005/6/30

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ16822486 ↗
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The 2004–05 synchronized skating season began on July 1, 2004, and ended on June 30, 2005. During this season, which was concurrent with the season for the other four disciplines (men's single, ladies' single, pair skating and ice dancing), elite synchronized skating teams competed on the International Skating Union (ISU) Championship level at the 2005 World Championships and Junior World Challenge Cup. They also competed at various other international as well as national synchronized skating competitions.

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The public source identifies “2004–05 synchronized skating season” as competitive synchronized skating year from 2004/7/1 to 2005/6/30. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around synchronized, skating and season.

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—2004, 2005—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with synchronized, skating and season 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 Dec 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16822486. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2004 and 2005.

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This entry incorporates text from “2004–05 synchronized skating season” 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.