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Søren Eriksen

Danish wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ16006387 ↗
Source-derived summary

Søren Eriksen (19 May 1893 – 23 September 1968) was a Danish wrestler. He competed in the freestyle lightweight and the Greco-Roman featherweight events at the 1924 Summer Olympics.

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The public source identifies “Søren Eriksen” as danish wrestler. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Søren, Eriksen and Danish.

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—1893, 1968, 1924—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1893-05-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Søren, Eriksen and Danish providing the first useful test.
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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 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16006387. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1893, 1968 and 1924.

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This entry incorporates text from “Søren Eriksen” 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.