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Erich Suhrbier

Olympic canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 7, 2024
Entity authorityQ5388120 ↗
Source-derived summary

Erich Suhrbier (born 25 April 1938) is a West German sprint canoer who competed in the mid to late 1960s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1963 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Jajce.

Suhrbier also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-1 1000 m event at Tokyo in 1964.

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“Erich Suhrbier” enters the record as olympic canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Erich, Suhrbier and Olympic can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1938, 1963, 1000, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-04-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Erich, Suhrbier and Olympic.
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“Erich Suhrbier” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Erich, Suhrbier and Olympic 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 Dec 7, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q5388120. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938, 1963, 1000 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Erich Suhrbier” 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.