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Rasmus Petersen

Norwegian artistic gymnast (1877-1957)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ7295120 ↗
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Rasmus Kristen Petersen (8 September 1877 – 24 May 1957) was a Norwegian gymnast. He competed in the 1906 Summer Olympics, where he won a gold medal as part of the Norwegian gymnastics team.

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“Rasmus Petersen” enters the record as norwegian artistic gymnast (1877-1957). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Rasmus, Petersen and Norwegian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1877, 1957, 1906—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1877-09-08. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Rasmus, Petersen and Norwegian.
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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 Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7295120. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1877, 1957 and 1906.

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This entry incorporates text from “Rasmus Petersen” 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.