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István Timár

Hungarian canoe racer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ6089385 ↗
Source-derived summary

István Timár-Geng (7 January 1940 – 4 December 1994) was a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. At the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City, he won two medals with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events.

Timár-Geng also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 10000 m and K-4 10000 m: both 1963), a silver (K-4 10000 m: 1971), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1970).

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“István Timár” enters the record as hungarian canoe racer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what István, Timár and Hungarian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1940, 1994, 1968, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1940-01-07. Its strongest next move is a source search built around István, Timár and Hungarian.
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“István Timár” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, István, Timár and Hungarian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Aug 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q6089385. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1940, 1994, 1968 and 1000.

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This entry incorporates text from “István Timár” 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.