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Günter Schroers

German rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ16105201 ↗
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Günter Schroers (born 11 January 1939) is a retired German rower who specialized in the coxless fours. In this event he won three medals at European championships of 1959–1964 and finished in sixth place at the 1964 Summer Olympics.

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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—1939, 1959, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-01-11. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Günter, Schroers and German providing the first useful test.
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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16105201. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 1959 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Günter Schroers” 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.