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Konrad Walk

Austrian alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ111042939 ↗
Source-derived summary

Konrad Walk (born 1 July 1965 in Vils, Tyrol) is an Austrian politician and former alpine skier who won the Europa Cup overall title in 1988.

Sporting career

During his career he has achieved 7 results among the top 10 in the World Cup and was 9th at the 1991 Alpine Ski World Championships.

Political career

In 2015, Walk was elected Mayor of the town of Hochfilzen. Prior, to this, he had served 6 years as vice-mayor of the same town.

World Cup results

Top 10

Europa Cup results

Walk has won an overall Europa Cup and one discipline cup.

Editorial summary

“Konrad Walk” enters the record as austrian alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Konrad, Walk and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1988, 1991, 2015—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-01-01. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Konrad, Walk and Austrian.
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Why this record matters

“Konrad Walk” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Konrad, Walk and Austrian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Jul 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111042939. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1965, 1988, 1991 and 2015.

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This entry incorporates text from “Konrad Walk” 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.