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Paul Felinger

Austrian canoeist (1913-1992)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 13, 2025
Entity authorityQ7150601 ↗
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Paul Felinger (20 June 1913 – 14 June 1992) was an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver in 1948 and a bronze in 1950.

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“Paul Felinger” enters the record as austrian canoeist (1913-1992). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Paul, Felinger and Austrian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1913, 1992, 1000, 1948—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1913-01-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Paul, Felinger and Austrian.
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“Paul Felinger” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Paul, Felinger and Austrian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 13, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7150601. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1913, 1992, 1000 and 1948.

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This entry incorporates text from “Paul Felinger” 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.