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Hayden Virtue

Australian canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2025
Entity authorityQ5686404 ↗
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Hayden Virtue is an Australian canoe sailor.

Virtue became the 2008 World Champion in the international canoes event by finishing in front of American Bill Beaver and fellow Australian Seth Dunbar. Together with Dunbar and Tim Wilson he also won the International Canoe Challenge Cup by successfully challenging the current holders Great Britain, represented by Colin Brown, John Robson and Simon Allen.

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“Hayden Virtue” enters the record as australian canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Hayden, Virtue and Australian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hayden Virtue” 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.