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Nicolas Wildhaber

Swiss swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ27058248 ↗
Source-derived summary

Nicolas Wildhaber (8 December 1929 – 26 September 2020) was a Swiss breaststroke swimmer. He competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Nicolas Wildhaber” as swiss swimmer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Nicolas, Wildhaber and Swiss.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 2020, 1948, 1960—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Nicolas, Wildhaber and Swiss providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Nicolas Wildhaber” 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.