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Joanne Henke

Australian alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 15, 2024
Entity authorityQ16192748 ↗
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Joanne Henke (born 5 November 1958) is a former Australian alpine skier who represented Australia at the 1976 Winter Olympics. She is the daughter of former ice hockey player and Australian winter sports administrator Geoff Henke and 1952 figure skating Olympian Gweneth Molony.

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References

Gordon, Harry (1994). Australia and the Olympic Games. University of Queensland. ISBN 0-7022-2627-0.

Gordon, Harry (2003). The time of our lives: inside the Sydney Olympics : Australia and the Olympic Games 1994–2002. University of Queensland. ISBN 0-7022-3412-5.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Joanne Henke” as australian alpine skier. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1958, 1976, 1952, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-11-05. The account is most persuasive where Joanne, Henke and Australian can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as australian alpine skier. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Dec 15, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q16192748. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1958, 1976, 1952 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Joanne Henke” 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.