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Patrick Lancereau

French canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 14, 2026
Entity authorityQ7146978 ↗
Source-derived summary

Patrick Lancereau (born 18 July 1966 in Tours) is a French sprint canoeist who competed in the early to mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he earned his best finish of fifth in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996.

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“Patrick Lancereau” enters the record as french canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Patrick, Lancereau and French 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—1966, 1000, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1966-07-18. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Patrick, Lancereau and French.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 14, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7146978. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1966, 1000 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Patrick Lancereau” 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.