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Michiel Victor

South African sports shooter (1910-1998)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ20737631 ↗
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Michiel Victor (28 May 1910 – 21 August 1998) was a South African sports shooter. He competed in the 300 metre rifle, three positions and 50 metre rifle, three positions events at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Michiel Victor” as south African sports shooter (1910-1998). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Michiel, Victor and South.

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—1910, 1998, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-05-28. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Michiel, Victor and South providing the first useful test.
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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 Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q20737631. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1998 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Michiel Victor” 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.