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Karl Wölfl

cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 19, 2026
Entity authorityQ17388916 ↗
Source-derived summary

Karl Wölfl (5 January 1914 – 29 November 2004) was an Austrian cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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“Karl Wölfl” enters the record as cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Karl, Wölfl and cyclist 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—1914, 2004, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-01-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Karl, Wölfl and cyclist.
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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 Apr 19, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17388916. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 2004 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Karl Wölfl” 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.