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Johnny Lucas (canoeist)

Luxembourgian canoeist (1931-1993)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 28, 2025
Entity authorityQ6267166 ↗
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Johnny Lucas (12 August 1931 – 19 October 1993) was a Luxembourgish sprint canoer who competed in the early 1950s. He was born and died in Diekirch. Competing alongside Léon Roth at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki, he was eliminated in the heats of the K-2 1000 m event.

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Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1931, 1993, 1952, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-08-12. For this dossier, Johnny, Lucas and canoeist is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Johnny Lucas (canoeist)” 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.