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Róbert Gál

Hungarian artistic gymnast

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ15710758 ↗
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Róbert Gál (born March 30, 1979, in Budapest) is a Hungarian artistic gymnast. He is the 2005 World bronze medalist on the floor exercise. He represented Hungary at the 2004 Summer Olympics, where he placed 6th in the vault event final.

He has been named to the 2008 Hungarian Olympic Team.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Róbert Gál” is hungarian artistic gymnast. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Róbert, Hungarian and artistic, not as a finished interpretation.

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—1979, 2005, 2004, 2008—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-03-30. For this dossier, Róbert, Hungarian and artistic is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 6, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q15710758. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2005, 2004 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Róbert Gál” 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.