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Niels Van Zandweghe

Belgian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ47464457 ↗
Source-derived summary

Niels Van Zandweghe (born 28 February 1996) is a Belgian competitive rower, born in Bruges. He competed at the 2020 and 2024 Summer Olympics, in men's lightweight double sculls.

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“Niels Van Zandweghe” enters the record as belgian rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Niels, Zandweghe and Belgian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1996, 2020, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1996-02-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Niels, Zandweghe and Belgian.
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“Niels Van Zandweghe” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Niels, Zandweghe and Belgian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 29, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q47464457. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1996, 2020 and 2024.

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This entry incorporates text from “Niels Van Zandweghe” 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.