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János Tóth (race walker)

Hungarian athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ11729815 ↗
Source-derived summary

János Tóth (born 15 April 1978) is a Hungarian racewalker. He competed in the men's 50 kilometres walk at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“János Tóth (race walker)” enters the record as hungarian athletics competitor. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what János, Tóth and race 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—1978, 2004—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1978-04-15. Its strongest next move is a source search built around János, Tóth and race.
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Why this record matters

“János Tóth (race walker)” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, János, Tóth and race 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 Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q11729815. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1978 and 2004.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. 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.

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This entry incorporates text from “János Tóth (race walker)” 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.