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Petra Horneber

German sport shooter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ1407618 ↗
Source-derived summary

Petra Horneber (born 21 April 1965) is a German sport shooter. She won the Silver medal in the 10 m air rifle in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Petra Horneber” as german sport shooter. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1965, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-04-21. The account is most persuasive where Petra, Horneber and German can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as german sport shooter. 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 Aug 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q1407618. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Petra Horneber” 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.