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Franz Ratzenberger

Austrian athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 21, 2025
Entity authorityQ19971402 ↗
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Franz Ratzenberger (born 30 March 1965 in Grieskirchen) is an Austrian former sprinter. He represented his country at the 1992 Summer Olympics as well as one outdoor and two indoor World Championships.

In 1993 he tested positive for a banned steroid Metandienone and was subsequently banned from competition for two years. That same year he retired from the sport.

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The public source identifies “Franz Ratzenberger” as austrian athletics competitor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Franz, Ratzenberger and Austrian.

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, 1992, 1993—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-03-30. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Franz, Ratzenberger and Austrian providing the first useful test.
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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 Oct 21, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19971402. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1992 and 1993.

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This entry incorporates text from “Franz Ratzenberger” 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.