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Eduard Wolffhardt

Austrian canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 9, 2024
Entity authorityQ5340488 ↗
Source-derived summary

Eduard Wolffhardt is a former Austrian slalom canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won three silver medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships, earning them in 1977 (K-1 team) and 1979 (K-1, K-1 team).

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

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—1977, 1979—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1901. The account is most persuasive where Eduard, Wolffhardt and Austrian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as austrian canoeist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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This entry incorporates text from “Eduard Wolffhardt” 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.