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Toni Wilhelm

German windsurfer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ88985
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Toni Wilhelm (born 5 February 1983) is a German competitive windsurfer. He was born in Lörrach. He competed in windsurfing at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens and at the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, where he finished in 4th place. At the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, he finished in 6th place.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Toni Wilhelm” as german windsurfer. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2004, 2012, 2016—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1983-02-05. The account is most persuasive where Toni, Wilhelm and German can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as german windsurfer. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 28, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q88985. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2004, 2012 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from Toni Wilhelm” 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.