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Dorel Cristudor

Romanian sprinter and bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ51928515 ↗
Source-derived summary

Dorel Cristudor (born 11 April 1954) is a Romanian former sprinter turned bobsledder. He competed in the four man event at the 1980 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Dorel Cristudor” enters the record as romanian sprinter and bobsledder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Dorel, Cristudor and Romanian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1954, 1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1954-04-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Dorel, Cristudor and Romanian.
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Why this record matters

“Dorel Cristudor” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Dorel, Cristudor and Romanian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Mar 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q51928515. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1954 and 1980.

Critical limits

The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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This entry incorporates text from “Dorel Cristudor” 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.