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Zoltán Bakó

Canoe racer

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General referenceInterpretive dossier study · Crown Archives visual atlas
Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 16, 2025
Entity authorityQ8073635 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zoltán Bakó (born 11 November 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed during the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympic Games, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Montreal in 1976.

Bakó also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1973, 1975, 1978), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-2 10000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1971, 1975).

Editorial summary

“Zoltán Bakó” enters the record as canoe racer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Zoltán, Bakó and Canoe 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—1951, 1000, 1976, 1974—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1951-10-11. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Zoltán, Bakó and Canoe.
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Why this record matters

“Zoltán Bakó” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Zoltán, Bakó and Canoe 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 Aug 16, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q8073635. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1951, 1000, 1976 and 1974.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zoltán Bakó” 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.