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Hubert Abold

Motorcycle road racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 12, 2025
Entity authorityQ5927108 ↗
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Hubert Abold (born 13 June 1958) is a retired German professional Grand Prix motorcycle road racer. He won the 80 cc European Championship in 1983. He was runner-up in the 80 cc World Championship, as teammate to Champion Stefan Dörflinger in 1984.

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The public source identifies “Hubert Abold” as motorcycle road racer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hubert, Abold and Motorcycle.

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—1958, 1983, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-06-13. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hubert, Abold and Motorcycle 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 Nov 12, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5927108. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1983 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hubert Abold” 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.