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Renate Meyer (sprinter)

German sprinter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ2143474 ↗
Source-derived summary

Renate Meyer (born 6 January 1938) is a former German sprinter. She competed in sprint events at both the 1964 and 1968 Summer Olympics.

She also won a silver medal in the women's 4 × 100 m relay at the 1966 European Athletics Championships in Budapest.

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“Renate Meyer (sprinter)” enters the record as german sprinter. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Renate, Meyer and sprinter 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—1938, 1964, 1968, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-01-06. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Renate, Meyer and sprinter.
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“Renate Meyer (sprinter)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Renate, Meyer and sprinter provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2143474. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1964, 1968 and 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Renate Meyer (sprinter)” 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.