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Josef Grün

bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 11, 2020
Entity authorityQ3810135 ↗
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Josef Grün (sometimes shown as Joseph Grün) was a West German bobsledder who competed in the mid-1950s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at the 1954 FIBT World Championships in Cortina d'Ampezzo.

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“Josef Grün” enters the record as bobsledder. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Josef, Grün and bobsledder can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1954—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Josef, Grün and bobsledder.
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This entry incorporates text from “Josef Grün” 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.