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Vladimír Vaina

Czechoslovakian rower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 10, 2025
Entity authorityQ56248777 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vladimír Vaina (2 November 1909 – 8 February 1996) was a Czech rower. He competed in the men's double sculls event at the 1936 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Vladimír Vaina” enters the record as czechoslovakian rower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vladimír, Vaina and Czechoslovakian can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1909, 1996, 1936—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1909-11-02. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vladimír, Vaina and Czechoslovakian.
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Why this record matters

“Vladimír Vaina” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Vladimír, Vaina and Czechoslovakian provides the most credible route into that argument.

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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Feb 10, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q56248777. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1909, 1996 and 1936.

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This entry incorporates text from “Vladimír Vaina” 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.