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Valentina Kovpan

archer (1950-2006)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 22, 2026
Entity authorityQ3818511 ↗
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Valentina Ivanovna Kovpan (28 February 1950, Petroostriv, Kirovohrad Oblast, Ukrainian SSR – 12 May 2006, Lviv, Ukraine) was an archer from the Soviet Union.

She competed for the Soviet Union in the 1976 Summer Olympics held in Montreal, Quebec, Canada in the individual event where she finished in second place.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Valentina Kovpan” is archer (1950-2006). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Valentina, Kovpan and archer, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1950, 2006, 1976—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1950-02-28. For this dossier, Valentina, Kovpan and archer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Valentina Kovpan” 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.