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Ice hockey at the 1986 Asian Winter Games

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ1792825 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ice hockey at the 1986 Asian Winter Games took place in the city of Sapporo, Japan. Only four nations competed in the sport: China, Japan, South Korea and North Korea.

The competition was held at the Tsukisamu Gymnasium from 1 to 8 March.

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“Ice hockey at the 1986 Asian Winter Games” enters the record as open-knowledge reference entry. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what hockey, Asian and Winter 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—1986—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around hockey, Asian and Winter.
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“Ice hockey at the 1986 Asian Winter Games” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, hockey, Asian and Winter 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 Sep 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1792825. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1986.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ice hockey at the 1986 Asian Winter Games” 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.