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Benjamin Lang (rower)

French rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ2896134 ↗
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Benjamin Lang (born 4 February 1987) is a French rower. He competed in the men's coxless four event at the 2016 Summer Olympics. His first club was the Emulation Nautique de Bordeaux, which he joined in 1997 and remains a member of their steering committee.

Lang won silver medals in the coxed pair at both the 2008 and 2012 World Rowing Championships.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1987, 2016, 1997, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-02-04. The account is most persuasive where Benjamin, Lang and rower can be independently traced.
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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 Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2896134. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2016, 1997 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Benjamin Lang (rower)” 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.