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Edward Cronk

British canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ5342464 ↗
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Edward Cronk (5 June 1936 – 31 May 2021) was a British canoe sprinter who competed in the early 1960s. At the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome, he was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-1 4 × 500 m event.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1936, 2021, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1936-06-05. For this dossier, Edward, Cronk and British is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Edward Cronk” 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.