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Jan Lidral

Olympic ice hockey player (1929–1982)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 20, 2026
Entity authorityQ6149375 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jan Lidral (19 March 1929 in Hluboká nad Vltavou, Czechoslovakia – 24 January 1982 in České Budějovice, Czechoslovakia) was a Czech ice hockey player who competed in the 1952 Winter Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Jan Lidral” enters the record as olympic ice hockey player (1929–1982). Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Lidral, Olympic and hockey can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1929, 1982, 1952—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-03-19. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Lidral, Olympic and hockey.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jan Lidral” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Lidral, Olympic and hockey provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

Biographical claims are most persuasive when dates, appointments and relationships can be traced to records created close to the events described. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 20, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6149375. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1929, 1982 and 1952.

Critical limits

Later biographies can compress uncertainty and repeat inherited reputations, so apparently settled claims may still require comparison. 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.

How to read it

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  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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This entry incorporates text from “Jan Lidral” 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.