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Antonina Rudenko

Soviet swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ4776344 ↗
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Antonina Rudenko (Russian: Антонина Павловна Руденко, Ukrainian: Антоніна Павлівна Руденко; born 28 May 1950) is a retired Soviet swimmer who won a gold medal in the 4×100 m freestyle relay at the 1966 European Aquatics Championships, setting a new European record. She also won a silver medal in the 4×100 m medley relay at the same championships.

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“Antonina Rudenko” enters the record as soviet swimmer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Antonina, Rudenko and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 1966—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-05-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Antonina, Rudenko and Soviet.
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“Antonina Rudenko” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Antonina, Rudenko and Soviet provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q4776344. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1950 and 1966.

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This entry incorporates text from “Antonina Rudenko” 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.