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Peter Askjær-Friis

Danish fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ7172577 ↗
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Peter Askjær-Friis (born 17 April 1947) is a Danish fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Peter Askjær-Friis” as danish fencer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1947, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-04-17. The account is most persuasive where Peter, Askjær-Friis and Danish can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as danish fencer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7172577. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1947 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Askjær-Friis” 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.