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Monica Valvik

Norwegian cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2025
Entity authorityQ434202 ↗
Source-derived summary

Grethe Monica Eikild Valen (born 15 September 1970) is a Norwegian racing cyclist. She won the Norwegian National Road Race Championship five times in the 1990s.

She was born in Skien and is the sister of Anita Valen. She was married to Svein Inge Valvik.

She competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics, where she placed fifth, and at the 2000 Summer Olympics, where she placed 29th. She won a gold medal at the 1994 UCI Road World Championships.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Monica Valvik” as norwegian cyclist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1970, 1992, 2000, 1994—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-09-15. The account is most persuasive where Monica, Valvik and Norwegian can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as norwegian cyclist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 19, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q434202. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1992, 2000 and 1994.

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This entry incorporates text from “Monica Valvik” 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.