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2008 German Skeleton Championship

German Sports Tournament

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ918451 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 42nd German Skeleton Championship in 2008 was organized on 4 and 5 January in Altenberg.

Editorial summary

“2008 German Skeleton Championship” enters the record as german Sports Tournament. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what German, Skeleton and Championship can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around German, Skeleton and Championship.
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“2008 German Skeleton Championship” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, German, Skeleton and Championship provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 May 22, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q918451. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “2008 German Skeleton Championship” 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.