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Vassiliy Beresa

Soviet canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 28, 2024
Entity authorityQ7916969 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vassiliy Beresa (sometimes listed as Vasiliy Beresa is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the early 1980s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold in 1983 (C-1 1000 m), a silver in 1982 (C-2 10000 m), and a bronze in 1982 (C-1 1000 m).

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“Vassiliy Beresa” enters the record as soviet canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vassiliy, Beresa and Soviet can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1983, 1000, 1982—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1958-04-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vassiliy, Beresa and Soviet.
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“Vassiliy Beresa” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vassiliy, Beresa and Soviet provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Sep 28, 2024. The linked authority identifier is Q7916969. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1983, 1000 and 1982.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vassiliy Beresa” 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.