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Martin Steger

cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2025
Entity authorityQ19518546 ↗
Source-derived summary

Martin Steger (born 20 October 1948) is a former Swiss cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit event at the 1972 Summer Olympics and placed fifth.

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“Martin Steger” enters the record as cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Martin, Steger and cyclist 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—1948, 1972—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-10-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Martin, Steger and cyclist.
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“Martin Steger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Martin, Steger and cyclist provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Dec 7, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19518546. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1948 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Martin Steger” 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.