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Claude Peschier

French canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 26, 2025
Entity authorityQ5128993 ↗
Source-derived summary

Claude Peschier is a French former slalom canoeist who competed at the international level from 1967 to 1973.

He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (K1: 1969, K1 team: 1969) and two bronzes (K1 team: 1967, 1973).

His two sons Benoît and Nicolas have also competed in canoe slalom.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Claude Peschier” as french canoeist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1967, 1973, 1969—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947. The account is most persuasive where Claude, Peschier and French can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as french canoeist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 26, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5128993. VIAF identifies the subject as 51694298. None of the 2 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1967, 1973 and 1969.

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This entry incorporates text from “Claude Peschier” 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.