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GZC Donk

Dutch water polo club

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 9, 2026
Entity authorityQ2327644 ↗
Source-derived summary

Goudsche Zwemclub DONK, F.N.A. Donk Gouda, is a Dutch water polo club from Gouda. It is best known for its women's team, which won three of the first four editions of the LEN Champions' Cup. It has also won nine national championships and eleven national cups, most recently attaining its sixth double in 2011.

The Goudsche Zwemclub (GZC) was founded in 1886. In 2003, it merged with Donk to become GZC Donk.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “GZC Donk” is dutch water polo club. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Donk, Dutch and water, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2011, 1886, 2003—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1886. For this dossier, Donk, Dutch and water is the immediate research focus.
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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 Jul 9, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q2327644. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 2011, 1886 and 2003.

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This entry incorporates text from “GZC Donk” 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.