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Lucia Näfen-Zehnder

Swiss ski mountaineer, long-distance runner and politician

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 12, 2026
Entity authorityQ6696659 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lucia-Maria Näfen-Zehnder, née Näfen (born 25 November 1962), is a Swiss ski mountaineer, long-distance runner and politician of the Christian Democratic People's Party of Switzerland Upper Valais.

Näfen is married with three children, and lives in Brig-Glis, where she was elected into the municipal council in 2008.

Editorial summary

“Lucia Näfen-Zehnder” enters the record as swiss ski mountaineer, long-distance runner and politician. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lucia, Näfen-Zehnder and Swiss can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA useful biographical orientation record, particularly for establishing names, roles and a first chronology. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1962, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1962-11-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lucia, Näfen-Zehnder and Swiss.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 12, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6696659. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962 and 2008.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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  • Establishing names and roles
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  • Locating cited institutions
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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lucia Näfen-Zehnder” 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.