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Harald Hagen

Norwegian sailor (1902–1972)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMar 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ5653794 ↗
Source-derived summary

Harald Hagen Jr. (15 March 1902 – 24 May 1970) was a Norwegian sailor who competed in the 1924 Summer Olympics. In 1924 he won the gold medal as crew member of the Norwegian boat Bera in the 8 metre class event.

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“Harald Hagen” enters the record as norwegian sailor (1902–1972). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Harald, Hagen and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1902, 1970, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1902-03-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Harald, Hagen and Norwegian.
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“Harald Hagen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Harald, Hagen and Norwegian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Mar 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q5653794. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1902, 1970 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Harald Hagen” 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.