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Alena Postlová

Czechoslovak rower (1939-2005)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ47153352 ↗
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Alena Postlová (later Alena Kvasilová–Postlová; 24 March 1939 – 13 May 2005) was a Czech rower who competed for Czechoslovakia. She won the 1962 European Rowing Championships in single sculls. She competed at European Rowing Championships between 1959 and 1970 in single and double sculls. At the 1963 European Rowing Championships in Moscow, she capsized in the final.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Alena Postlová” is czechoslovak rower (1939-2005). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Alena, Postlová and Czechoslovak, 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—1939, 2005, 1962, 1959—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-03-24. For this dossier, Alena, Postlová and Czechoslovak is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Alena Postlová” 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.