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Radek Záruba

Czech canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionNov 4, 2025
Entity authorityQ7280095 ↗
Source-derived summary

Radek Záruba (born 5 June 1979 in Děčín) is a Czech sprint canoeist who competed in the early 2000s. At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, he was eliminated in the semifinals of both the K-1 1000 m and the K-2 500 m events.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Radek Záruba” as czech 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—1979, 2000, 1000—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1979-06-05. The account is most persuasive where Radek, Záruba and Czech can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as czech canoeist. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

Evidence profile

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 Nov 4, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q7280095. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1979, 2000 and 1000.

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Overview language is designed for orientation and should not be treated as a substitute for the evidence cited beneath it. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

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This entry incorporates text from “Radek Záruba” 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.