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Germany at the 2014 Winter Paralympics

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ15774113 ↗
Source-derived summary

Germany competed at the 2014 Winter Paralympics in Sochi, Russia, held between 7–16 March 2014.

During the games, Germany has a German House, that is located in the village of Estosadok, on the Mzymta River, 4 kilometers (2.5 mi) upstream from Krasnaya Polyana (Mountain Cluster).

Alpine skiing

Germany has entered seven athletes in alpine skiing. In the combined, the first run is the slalom, the second is the super-G.

Men

Women

Snowboarding

Para-snowboarding is making its debut at the Winter Paralympics and it will be placed under the Alpine skiing program during the 2014 Games.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Germany at the 2014 Winter Paralympics” is sporting event delegation. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Germany, Winter and Paralympics, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2014—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Germany, Winter and Paralympics is the immediate research focus.
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The record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15774113. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Germany at the 2014 Winter Paralympics” 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.