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2017 Laser World Championship

Sailing competition in Split, Croatia

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ48700125 ↗
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The 2017 Laser World Championship was held in Split, Croatia 12–19 September 2017. The world championship for the Laser class and organised by the International Laser Class Association and Jedrilicarski klub Mornar.

With no sailing possible on the last scheduled day of racing, the leader Pavlos Kontides of Cyprus was declared world champion of 2017.

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The public source identifies “2017 Laser World Championship” as sailing competition in Split, Croatia. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Laser, World and Championship.

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—2017—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Laser, World and Championship providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “2017 Laser World 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.