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Knud Leonard Knudsen

Norwegian gymnast (1879-1954)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ2681061 ↗
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Knud Leonard Knudsen (6 September 1879 in Ålesund – 28 April 1954 in Bergen) was a Norwegian gymnast who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics. He was part of the Norwegian team that won the gold medal in the free system event.

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“Knud Leonard Knudsen” enters the record as norwegian gymnast (1879-1954). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Knud, Leonard and Knudsen 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—1879, 1954, 1912—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1879-09-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Knud, Leonard and Knudsen.
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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 Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2681061. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1879, 1954 and 1912.

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This entry incorporates text from “Knud Leonard Knudsen” 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.