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Tadamasa Sato

Japanese sprint canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ7674307 ↗
Source-derived summary

Tadamasa Sato (佐藤 忠正, Satō Tadamasa; born May 20, 1941) is a Japanese sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1960s to the early 1970s. He was eliminated in the repechages of the K-4 1000 m event at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Eight years later in Munich, Sato was eliminated in the repechages of the K-1 1000 m event.

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“Tadamasa Sato” enters the record as japanese sprint canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Tadamasa, Sato and Japanese 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—1941, 1000, 1964—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1941-05-20. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Tadamasa, Sato and Japanese.
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“Tadamasa Sato” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Tadamasa, Sato and Japanese provides the most credible route into that argument.

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The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jan 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q7674307. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1000 and 1964.

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This entry incorporates text from “Tadamasa Sato” 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.