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Sean Olsson

British bobsledder

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ2451801
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Sean Olsson (born 2 March 1967) is a British bobsledder who competed during the 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the four-man event at Nagano in 1998.

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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—1967, 1998—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1967-03-02. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Sean, Olsson and British providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from Sean Olsson” 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.