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Josef Hendrych

Czechoslovak canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ6279832 ↗
Source-derived summary

Josef Hendrych is a retired Czechoslovak slalom canoeist who competed in the 1950s and the 1960s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Slalom World Championships with two golds (C-2 team: 1955, 1957), four silvers (C-2: 1957, 1959; C-2 team: 1959, 1961) and a bronze (C-2 team: 1953).

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“Josef Hendrych” enters the record as czechoslovak canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Josef, Hendrych and Czechoslovak 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—1955, 1957, 1959, 1961—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1931-12-04. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Josef, Hendrych and Czechoslovak.
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Why this record matters

“Josef Hendrych” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Josef, Hendrych and Czechoslovak 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 Aug 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6279832. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1955, 1957, 1959 and 1961.

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This entry incorporates text from “Josef Hendrych” 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.