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Evelin Kaufer

East German sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 31, 2025
Entity authorityQ272743 ↗
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Evelin Kaufer (later Schmuck; born 22 February 1953, in Sohland an der Spree) is a retired East German sprinter who competed in the 100 metres.

Career and family

At the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich Kaufer reached the heats of the 100 m and won a silver medal in the 4 × 100 m relay with her teammates Christina Heinich, Bärbel Struppert and Renate Stecher.

Kaufer competed for the club SC Einheit Dresden during her active career. She married the DDR-Oberliga footballer Udo Schmuck.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Evelin Kaufer” as east German sprinter. 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—1953, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1953-02-22. The account is most persuasive where Evelin, Kaufer and East can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as east German sprinter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Oct 31, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q272743. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1953 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Evelin Kaufer” 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.