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1932 European Rowing Championships

international rowing event

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 1, 2025
Entity authorityQ19951766 ↗
Source-derived summary

The 1932 European Rowing Championships were rowing championships held on the Sava in the Yugoslav capital city of Belgrade. The competition was only for men and they competed in all seven Olympic boat classes (M1x, M2x, M2-, M2+, M4-, M4+, M8+). It was held from 2 to 4 September.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “1932 European Rowing Championships” is international rowing event. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through European, Rowing and Championships, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA useful synthesis for locating the documentary relationships between formal authority, participants and affected communities. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, European, Rowing and Championships is the immediate research focus.
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Why this record matters

The phrase “international rowing event” 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 record creator and administrative purpose are central evidence, because official documentation reflects both action and institutional priorities. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 1, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q19951766. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1932.

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.

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

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This entry incorporates text from “1932 European Rowing Championships” 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.