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Jerzy Górski

Polish canoeist (1929–1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 25, 2025
Entity authorityQ771659 ↗
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Jerzy Górski (October 27, 1929 – May 24, 1997) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1950s. At the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, he finished tenth in the K-2 10000 m event while being eliminated in heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

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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—1929, 1997, 1956, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1929-10-27. For this dossier, Jerzy, Górski and Polish is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Jerzy Górski” 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.