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Mark Zembsch

American coxswain

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ47452431 ↗
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Mark Jeffrey Zembsch (born February 19, 1959) is an American rowing coxswain. He competed in the men's coxed four event at the 1988 Summer Olympics.

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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—1959, 1988—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1959-02-19. The account is most persuasive where Mark, Zembsch and American can be independently traced.
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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 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47452431. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1959 and 1988.

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This entry incorporates text from “Mark Zembsch” 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.