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Urs Kälin

alpine skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ179578 ↗
Source-derived summary

Urs Kälin (born 26 February 1966) is a Swiss former alpine skier. He competed at three Winter Olympics.

Kälin won three silver medals in Giant slalom: at the 1991 World Championships in Saalbach, at the 1994 Winter Olympics in Lillehammer, and at 1996 World Championships in Sierra Nevada.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Urs Kälin” is alpine skier. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Kälin, alpine and skier, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1966, 1991, 1994, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-02-26. For this dossier, Kälin, alpine and skier is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “alpine skier” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q179578. VIAF identifies the subject as 69770508. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1991, 1994 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Urs Kälin” 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.