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Steve Maaranen

cyclist (1947-2019)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ18153911 ↗
Source-derived summary

Steve Maaranen (April 14, 1947 – June 16, 2019) was an American cyclist. He competed in the team pursuit at the 1968 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Steve Maaranen” as cyclist (1947-2019). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Steve, Maaranen and cyclist.

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—1947, 2019, 1968—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1947-04-14. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Steve, Maaranen and cyclist providing the first useful test.
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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 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q18153911. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1947, 2019 and 1968.

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This entry incorporates text from “Steve Maaranen” 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.