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U.S. Biathlon Association

organization

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 11, 2026
Entity authorityQ17039028 ↗
Source-derived summary

The United States Biathlon Association (USBA) is the national governing body for Olympic biathlon in the United States and a member of the International Biathlon Union (IBU). The USBA exists to support and encourage the development of biathlon in the United States and to prepare athletes for international competition, including the Winter Olympic Games.

Founded in 1980, USBA works with Biathlon Clubs and Regional Centers around the country to organize training and competition at the grassroots level and staffs and finances the US Biathlon National Team, Development Team, and Junior Team.

Editorial summary

“U.S. Biathlon Association” enters the record as organization. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Biathlon, Association and organization can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA strong contextual entry point for chronology, institutions and public events when official records are distinguished from later interpretation. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1980—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1980. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Biathlon, Association and organization.
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Why this record matters

“U.S. Biathlon Association” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Biathlon, Association and organization provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 11, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q17039028. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1980.

Critical limits

Official terminology may obscure informal participation, dissent or communities documented only indirectly. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Compare institutional narratives with records created by participants and affected communities. Dates and formal titles are useful anchors, but not substitutes for context.

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  • Event chronology
  • Institutional context
  • Locating named record creators
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Contemporary correspondence, government or organizational records, oral histories and cited historical scholarship.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “U.S. Biathlon Association”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow U.S. Biathlon Association primary sources, U.S. Biathlon Association archive and Biathlon research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. What chronology connects this entry to wider political or social change?
  3. Which voices are present, absent or mediated by the institution?
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This entry incorporates text from “U.S. Biathlon Association” 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.