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Sotoo Okushiba

Japanese cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ64853344 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sotoo Okushiba (奥芝 外雄, Okushiba Sotoo; born 29 November 1945) is a Japanese cross-country skier. He competed in the men's 50 kilometre event at the 1968 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Sotoo Okushiba” enters the record as japanese cross-country skier. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Sotoo, Okushiba and Japanese can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1945, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1945-11-29. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Sotoo, Okushiba and Japanese.
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“Sotoo Okushiba” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Sotoo, Okushiba and Japanese 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 Nov 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q64853344. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1945 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sotoo Okushiba” 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.