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Egon Stephansen

Danish sports shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ20738181
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Egon Stephansen (born 22 October 1934) is a Danish former sports shooter. He competed in the 300 metre rifle, three positions and 50 metre rifle, prone events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Egon Stephansen” as danish sports shooter. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Egon, Stephansen and Danish.

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—1934, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934-10-22. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Egon, Stephansen and Danish providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Egon Stephansen” 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.