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Alexander Karwoski

American rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ26254374 ↗
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Alexander Karwoski (born September 16, 1990) is an American rower. He competed in the men's eight event at the 2016 Summer Olympics.

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This entry incorporates text from “Alexander Karwoski” 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.