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Irena Pawełczyk

Polish luger

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 20, 2024
Entity authorityQ520068 ↗
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Irena Pawełczyk (born 9 March 1934 in Katowice) is a Polish luger who competed in the early 1960s. She won the gold medal in the women's singles event at the 1962 FIL European Luge Championships in Weissenbach, Austria.

Pawełczyk also finished fourth in the women's singles event at the 1964 Winter Olympics in Innsbruck.

References

List of European luge champions (in German)

Wallenchinsky, David. (1984). "Luge: Women's Singles". In The Complete Book the Olympics: 1896-1980. New York: Penguin Books. p. 577.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Irena Pawełczyk” as polish luger. 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—1934, 1962, 1964, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1934-03-09. The account is most persuasive where Irena, Pawełczyk and Polish can be independently traced.
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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 Dec 20, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q520068. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1934, 1962, 1964 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Irena Pawełczyk” 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.