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Werner Meier

Swiss athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 15, 2026
Entity authorityQ2562018 ↗
Source-derived summary

Werner Meier (born 31 May 1949) is a Swiss middle-distance runner. He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 1972 Summer Olympics.

Meier finished third behind Brendan Foster in the 5,000 metres event at the British 1974 AAA Championships.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Werner Meier” as swiss athletics competitor. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1949, 1500, 1972, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1949-05-31. The account is most persuasive where Werner, Meier and Swiss can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as swiss athletics competitor. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jul 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2562018. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1949, 1500, 1972 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Werner Meier” 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.