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Michał Górski

Polish cross-country skier

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ265458 ↗
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Michał Jan Górski (15 September 1911 – 19 March 1985) was a Polish cross-country skier who competed in the 1936 Winter Olympics. His civil profession was an engineer and architect.

He was born and died in Zakopane.

In 1936 he was a member of the Polish cross-country relay team which finished seventh in the 4x10 km relay event. In the 18 km competition he finished 22nd.

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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—1911, 1985, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1911-09-15. The account is most persuasive where Michał, Górski and Polish can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Michał 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.