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Barbara Strass

Austrian handball player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ4859347 ↗
Source-derived summary

Barbara Freibauer (née Strass, 26 May 1974, in Vienna) is a former Austrian international team handball player and coach, European Championship and World Championship bronze medalist and Olympic participant.

Strass holds the Austrian record of most international caps with 272 appearances, and is in Austrian Handball Hall of Fame.

When she retired she took over as the assistant to the Austrian youth national team.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Barbara Strass” as austrian handball player. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1974-05-26. The account is most persuasive where Barbara, Strass and Austrian can be independently traced.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The subject matters to the people & ideas register because the source frames it as austrian handball player. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4859347. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1974.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. The source lead contains qualifying language; that uncertainty should survive quotation, summary and reuse. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Establishing names and roles
  • Building a first chronology
  • Locating cited institutions
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Barbara Strass”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Barbara Strass primary sources, Barbara Strass archive and Barbara research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
  3. Which primary records establish identity, chronology and institutional ties?
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This entry incorporates text from “Barbara Strass” 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.