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Antal Megyerdi

Hungarian cyclist (1939–2013)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 23, 2026
Entity authorityQ570774 ↗
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Antal Megyerdi (5 December 1939 – 10 March 2013) was a Hungarian cyclist. He was born in Budapest, his profession was a Publisher. He competed at the 1964 Summer Olympics in the individual road race and finished in 47th place. In 1960 he won the Tour de Slovaquie, and in 1966 one stage of the Peace Race.

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“Antal Megyerdi” enters the record as hungarian cyclist (1939–2013). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antal, Megyerdi and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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, 2013, 1964, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1939-12-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antal, Megyerdi and Hungarian.
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“Antal Megyerdi” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antal, Megyerdi and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 23, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q570774. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1939, 2013, 1964 and 1960.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antal Megyerdi” 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.