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Ambrosi Hoffmann

Swiss Alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ459365 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ambrosi Hoffmann (born 22 March 1977, in Davos) is a Swiss alpine skier.

At the 2002 Winter Olympics, he finished 8th in downhill. He won a bronze medal in super-G at the 2006 Winter Olympics and placed 17th in the downhill event.

Editorial summary

“Ambrosi Hoffmann” enters the record as swiss Alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ambrosi, Hoffmann and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1977, 2002, 2006—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1977-03-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ambrosi, Hoffmann and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

“Ambrosi Hoffmann” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ambrosi, Hoffmann and Swiss provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q459365. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1977, 2002 and 2006.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ambrosi Hoffmann” 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.