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Sune Skagerling

Swedish bobsledder (1919–1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 29, 2025
Entity authorityQ7639914 ↗
Source-derived summary

Sune Ralf Bertil Skagerling (September 27, 1919 – November 28, 1997) was a Swedish bobsledder who competed in the 1956 Winter Olympics.

Together with Olle Axelsson, Ebbe Wallén, and Gunnar Åhs he was a crew member of Sweden I who finished 16th in the four-man event.

He was born in Stockholm and died in Tyresö.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Sune Skagerling” is swedish bobsledder (1919–1997). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Sune, Skagerling and Swedish, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1919, 1997, 1956—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1919-09-27. For this dossier, Sune, Skagerling and Swedish is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “swedish bobsledder (1919–1997)” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 29, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7639914. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1919, 1997 and 1956.

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This entry incorporates text from “Sune Skagerling” 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.