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Ivan Čaklec

Croatian gymnast (1932–2018 )

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 6, 2026
Entity authorityQ61061853 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ivan Čaklec (5 August 1932 – 30 March 2018) was a Croatian gymnast. He competed at the 1952 Summer Olympics, the 1960 Summer Olympics and the 1964 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Ivan Čaklec” enters the record as croatian gymnast (1932–2018 ). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Ivan, Čaklec and Croatian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1932, 2018, 1952, 1960—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1932-01-01, 1932-08-05—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Ivan, Čaklec and Croatian.
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Why this record matters

“Ivan Čaklec” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Ivan, Čaklec and Croatian provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

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 Q61061853. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1932, 2018, 1952 and 1960.

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The absence of detail may reflect summary conventions rather than a lack of surviving documentation. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ivan Čaklec” 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.