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Tormod Mobraaten

Olympic skier (1910–1991)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 11, 2025
Entity authorityQ520696 ↗
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Tormod Knutsen "Tom" Mobraaten (19 February 1910 – 10 June 1991) was a Canadian skier, born in Kongsberg, Norway. He competed in ski jumping, cross-country skiing, and Nordic combined. He participated at the 1936 Winter Olympics in Garmisch-Partenkirchen, and at the 1948 Winter Olympics in St. Moritz.

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The public source identifies “Tormod Mobraaten” as olympic skier (1910–1991). This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Tormod, Mobraaten and Olympic.

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—1910, 1991, 1936, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1910-02-19. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Tormod, Mobraaten and Olympic providing the first useful test.
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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 Jan 11, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q520696. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1991, 1936 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tormod Mobraaten” 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.