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Donald Stevens

Canadian alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ1240385 ↗
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Donald "Don" Stevens (born 22 September 1963) is a Canadian former alpine skier who competed in the 1988 Winter Olympics. He was born in Rossland, British Columbia and was a member of the Red Mountain Racers.

Stevens had 2 podium finishes in the 1987–88 FIS World Cup Season, a 2nd place in the Beaver Creek downhill on March 12, 1988, and 3rd place finish in Åre, Sweden. However, the race in Åre was canceled due to strong winds, resulting in a re-run where he finished 9th.

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“Donald Stevens” enters the record as canadian alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Donald, Stevens and Canadian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1963, 1988, 1987—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1963-09-22. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Donald, Stevens and Canadian.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1240385. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1963, 1988 and 1987.

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This entry incorporates text from “Donald Stevens” 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.