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Erik Bjørkum

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ5388495 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erik Bjørkum (born 26 February 1965) is a Norwegian sailor and Olympic medallist, born in Sandefjord. He received a silver medal in the Flying Dutchman class at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, together with Ole Petter Pollen. Bjørkum and Pollen won a silver medal at the 1988 European Championships, and a bronze medal at the 1989 Flying Dutchman World Championship.

Bjørkum resides at Høvik.

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“Erik Bjørkum” enters the record as sailor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Erik, Bjørkum and sailor 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—1965, 1988, 1989—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-02-26. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Erik, Bjørkum and sailor.
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“Erik Bjørkum” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Erik, Bjørkum and sailor provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q5388495. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1988 and 1989.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erik Bjørkum” 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.