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Vlasta Pešková

Czechoslovak javelin thrower

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 17, 2026
Entity authorityQ11914251 ↗
Source-derived summary

Vlasta Pešková (born 11 April 1938) is a Czech athlete. She competed in the women's javelin throw at the 1960 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

“Vlasta Pešková” enters the record as czechoslovak javelin thrower. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Vlasta, Pešková and Czechoslovak 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—1938, 1960—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1938-04-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Vlasta, Pešková and Czechoslovak.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 17, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q11914251. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1938 and 1960.

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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 “Vlasta Pešková” 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.