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Bill Spencer (cross-country skier)

American cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ65031094 ↗
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David William "Bill" Spencer (born March 23, 1956) is an American cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 15 kilometre classical event, the men's 50 kilometre freestyle, and the men's 4 x 10 kilometre relay at the 1988 Winter Olympics finishing 40th, 56th, and 13th respectively.

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“Bill Spencer (cross-country skier)” enters the record as american cross-country skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bill, Spencer and cross-country can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1956, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1956-03-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Bill, Spencer and cross-country.
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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 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q65031094. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1956 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bill Spencer (cross-country skier)” 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.