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Miroslav Zeman

Czechoslovak wrestler

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 16, 2026
Entity authorityQ11256698 ↗
Source-derived summary

Miroslav Zeman (14 September 1946 – 25 December 2025) was a Czech wrestler who competed for Czechoslovakia. He won an Olympic bronze medal in Greco-Roman wrestling in 1968. He also competed at the 1972 Olympics, where he tied for fourth place.

Zeman was born Prague on 14 September 1946, and died on 25 December 2025, at the age of 79.

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“Miroslav Zeman” enters the record as czechoslovak wrestler. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Miroslav, Zeman and Czechoslovak can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1946, 2025, 1968, 1972—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1946-09-14, 1946-11-24—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Miroslav, Zeman and Czechoslovak.
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“Miroslav Zeman” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Miroslav, Zeman and Czechoslovak provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 16, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11256698. VIAF identifies the subject as 8715156. 3 of 3 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 1 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1946, 2025, 1968 and 1972.

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This entry incorporates text from “Miroslav Zeman” 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.