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Armand Bénédic

Olympic curler (1875–1962)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ677255 ↗
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Armand Bénédic (26 August 1875 – 26 October 1960) was a French curler. He was born in Paris. He won a bronze medal at the 1924 Winter Olympics in Chamonix.

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“Armand Bénédic” enters the record as olympic curler (1875–1962). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Armand, Bénédic and Olympic 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—1875, 1960, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1875-08-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Armand, Bénédic and Olympic.
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This entry incorporates text from “Armand Bénédic” 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.