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Myitung Naw

Burmese long-distance runner

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 29, 2026
Entity authorityQ29646625 ↗
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Myitung Naw (28 December 1933—18 November 2023) was a Burmese long-distance runner. He competed in the marathon at the 1956 Summer Olympics and the 1960 Summer Olympics.

He was discovered while serving in the Kachin rifles.

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“Myitung Naw” enters the record as burmese long-distance runner. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Myitung, Burmese and long-distance 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—1933, 2023, 1956, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1933-12-28. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Myitung, Burmese and long-distance.
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This entry incorporates text from “Myitung Naw” 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.