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Helena Wiśniewska

Polish sprint canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ56321965 ↗
Source-derived summary

Helena Wiśniewska (born 18 April 1999) is a Polish sprint canoeist. At the 2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal in Women's K-4 500 metres. At the 2019 European Games, she won a bronze medal.

Career

She participated in the 2018 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships where she won a medal. In 2019, she and her team won bronze in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Cup.

She competed at the 2019 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Helena Wiśniewska” as polish sprint canoeist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1999, 2020, 2019, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1999-04-18. The account is most persuasive where Helena, Wiśniewska and Polish can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as polish sprint canoeist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jun 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q56321965. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1999, 2020, 2019 and 2018.

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This entry incorporates text from “Helena Wiśniewska” 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.