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Jan Kudra

Polish cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ122829 ↗
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Jan Kudra (5 July 1937 – 31 January 2023) was a Polish cyclist. He competed in the individual road race at the 1964 Summer Olympics. He won the Tour de Pologne in 1962 and 1968.

Kudra died on 31 January 2023, at the age of 85.

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“Jan Kudra” enters the record as polish cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kudra, Polish and cyclist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1937, 2023, 1964, 1962—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1937-07-05. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kudra, Polish and cyclist.
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“Jan Kudra” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kudra, Polish and cyclist provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Sep 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q122829. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1937, 2023, 1964 and 1962.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Kudra” 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.