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Pavol Maľa

Slovak athletics competitor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionOct 18, 2025
Entity authorityQ47450947 ↗
Source-derived summary

Pavol Maľa (17 October 1910 – 21 October 1970) was a Czechoslovak athlete. He competed in the men's javelin throw at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Pavol Maľa” as slovak athletics competitor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Pavol, Maľa and Slovak.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1910, 1970, 1936—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Pavol, Maľa and Slovak providing the first useful test.
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Why this record matters

A short description can identify a subject without explaining its stakes. For “Pavol Maľa”, the useful work is to connect “slovak athletics competitor” to the records capable of establishing context and consequence.

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Oct 18, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q47450947. The first chronological checks are 1910, 1970 and 1936.

Critical limits

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This entry incorporates text from “Pavol Maľa” 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.