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- ↑ "Privel Kinkati : le rêve olympique du rameur béninois" [Privel Kinkati: the Olympic dream of the Beninese rower]. Tokyo 2020 Olympics (in French). Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games . Retrieved 23 July 2021.
- ↑ "Rowing - HINKATI Privel". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 25 July 2021. Retrieved 2 August 2021.
