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Alfredo Bercht

Brazilian sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ95951684 ↗
Source-derived summary

Alfredo Bercht (2 January 1922 – 30 May 2005) was a Brazilian sailor. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics and the 1956 Summer Olympics. He was 1956 Brazilian National champion in the Snipe class.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alfredo Bercht” is brazilian sailor. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alfredo, Bercht and Brazilian, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1922, 2005, 1952, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1922-01-02. For this dossier, Alfredo, Bercht and Brazilian is the immediate research focus.
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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 Mar 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q95951684. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1922, 2005, 1952 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alfredo Bercht” 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.