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Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics

canoeing events at the Olympics

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 24, 2026
Entity authorityQ318197 ↗
Source-derived summary

Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing was held from August 11 to 23 at the Shunyi Olympic Rowing-Canoeing Park.

Peter Hochschorner and Pavol Hochschorner from Slovakia became the first slalom canoeists to win three Olympic gold medals.

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The public source identifies “Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics” as canoeing events at the Olympics. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Canoeing, Summer and Olympics.

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—2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Canoeing, Summer and Olympics providing the first useful test.
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This entry incorporates text from “Canoeing at the 2008 Summer Olympics” 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.