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Olaf Klitgaard Poulsen

Danish rower (1914-2007)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ55978801 ↗
Source-derived summary

Olaf Klitgaard Poulsen (18 May 1914 – 8 February 2007) was a Danish rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Olaf Klitgaard Poulsen” is danish rower (1914-2007). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Olaf, Klitgaard and Poulsen, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1914, 2007, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1914-05-18. For this dossier, Olaf, Klitgaard and Poulsen is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jun 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q55978801. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1914, 2007 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Olaf Klitgaard Poulsen” 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.