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Annette Poulsen

swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 8, 2026
Entity authorityQ4769110 ↗
Source-derived summary

Annette Poulsen (born 29 July 1969) is a Danish retired swimmer who won two medals in the 4 × 200 m freestyle relay at the World and European championships in 1991. She also competed at the 1988 and 1992 Summer Olympics in four events; her best achievement was sixth place in the 4 × 100 m freestyle relay in 1992.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Annette Poulsen” is swimmer. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Annette, Poulsen and swimmer, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1969, 1991, 1988, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1969-07-29. For this dossier, Annette, Poulsen and swimmer is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “swimmer” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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 Sep 8, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4769110. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1969, 1991, 1988 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Annette Poulsen” 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.