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Ladislav Vidumanský

Slovak water polo player and coach

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 17, 2025
Entity authorityQ16109869 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ladislav Vidumanský (born 9 July 1961) is a Slovak water polo player. He competed in the men's tournament at the 1992 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Ladislav Vidumanský” as slovak water polo player and coach. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Ladislav, Vidumanský and Slovak.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1961, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1961-07-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Ladislav, Vidumanský and Slovak providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Ladislav Vidumanský”, the useful work is to connect “slovak water polo player and coach” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 17, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q16109869. VIAF identifies the subject as 84704433. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1961 and 1992.

Critical limits

Public reputation and documentary evidence do not always develop together; absence from a summary is not evidence of historical absence. 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 “Ladislav Vidumanský” 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.