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Peter Lawler (canoeist)

British canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionDec 19, 2023
Entity authorityQ7175378 ↗
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Peter Lawler (born 25 April 1941) is a British canoe sprinter who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. He was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Four years later in Mexico City, Lawler was eliminated in the semifinals of the K-2 1000 m event. At his last Summer Olympics in Munich, he was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-4 1000 m event.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Peter Lawler (canoeist)” as british canoeist. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1941, 1000, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-04-25. The account is most persuasive where Peter, Lawler and canoeist can be independently traced.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Dec 19, 2023. The linked authority identifier is Q7175378. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1000 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Peter Lawler (canoeist)” 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.