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Cameron McFadzean

Australian canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 2, 2024
Entity authorityQ5026304 ↗
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Cameron McFadzean (born 7 May 1971, in Melbourne), is an Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of ninth in the K-1 500 m event at Atlanta in 1996.

McFadzean is a registered architect, and has been a director of an architectural visualisation and design studio since 1999.

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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—1971, 1996, 1999—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1971-05-07. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Cameron, McFadzean and Australian providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cameron McFadzean” 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.