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Udo Hessels

Dutch Paralympics Sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ2466236 ↗
Source-derived summary

Udo Hessels (born 25 August 1965) is a Dutch sailor who has competed in four Paralympics games winning silver in 2004 and gold in 2012 both in the three person keelboat the sonar.

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“Udo Hessels” enters the record as dutch Paralympics Sailor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hessels, Dutch and Paralympics 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—1965, 2004, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1965-08-25. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Hessels, Dutch and Paralympics.
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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 Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2466236. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1965, 2004 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Udo Hessels” 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.