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Terje Hanssen

Norwegian biathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 27, 2025
Entity authorityQ3364724 ↗
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Terje Hanssen (born 20 September 1948 in Kabelvåg, Lofoten) is a former Norwegian biathlete. At the 1976 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck, he finished fifth with the Norwegian relay team. He won a bronze medal in the relay at the 1974 Biathlon World Championships, together with Kjell Hovda, Kåre Hovda and Tor Svendsberget.

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“Terje Hanssen” enters the record as norwegian biathlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Terje, Hanssen and Norwegian 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—1948, 1976, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1948-09-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Terje, Hanssen and Norwegian.
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“Terje Hanssen” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Terje, Hanssen and Norwegian 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 Aug 27, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q3364724. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1948, 1976 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Terje Hanssen” 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.