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Pavel Šimko

Slovak triathlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1419363 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pavel Šimko (born February 13, 1982, in Poprad) is a triathlete from Slovakia. Šimko was the nation's first triathlete to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. During the swimming leg, Šimko was kicked by one of the competitors on top of his head causing him to lose his consciousness in the water, and was rescued by boat crew. Suffered from an endured pain, Šimko sought medical attention, and did not thereby finish the swimming leg and even the entire course.

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“Pavel Šimko” enters the record as slovak triathlete. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Pavel, Šimko and Slovak can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1982, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Pavel, Šimko and Slovak.
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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 Jun 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1419363. The first chronological checks are 1982 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from “Pavel Šimko” 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.