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Edmond Laroche

Swiss bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ16063264 ↗
Source-derived summary

Edmond Laroche (born 1896, date of death unknown) was a Swiss bobsledder. He competed in the four-man event at the 1924 Winter Olympics.

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“Edmond Laroche” enters the record as swiss bobsledder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Edmond, Laroche and Swiss 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—1896, 1924—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Edmond, Laroche and Swiss.
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“Edmond Laroche” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Edmond, Laroche and Swiss 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 Apr 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16063264. The first chronological checks are 1896 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Edmond Laroche” 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.