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Jan Hansen (rower)

Danish rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ45169016 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jan Hansen (born 18 February 1970) is a Danish lightweight rower. He won a gold medal at the 1992 World Rowing Championships in Montreal with the lightweight men's eight.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Jan Hansen (rower)” as danish rower. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hansen, rower and Danish.

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—1970, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-02-18. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hansen, rower and Danish providing the first useful test.
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A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Jan Hansen (rower)”, the useful work is to connect “danish rower” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

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 Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q45169016. VIAF identifies the subject as 102772020. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Hansen (rower)” 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.