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Lilian Kummer

Swiss alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ281669 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lilian Kummer (born 8 July 1975 in Riederalp, Valais, Switzerland) is a retired Swiss alpine skier who competed in the 2002 Winter Olympics.

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Lilian Kummer". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-18.

Editorial summary

“Lilian Kummer” enters the record as swiss alpine skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lilian, Kummer and Swiss 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—1975, 2002, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1975-07-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lilian, Kummer and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

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 Feb 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q281669. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1975, 2002 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lilian Kummer” 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.