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Cheng Kwok Wing

Hong Kong table tennis player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 27, 2026
Entity authorityQ52063207 ↗
Source-derived summary

Cheng Kwok Wing was an international table tennis player from Hong Kong.

Table tennis career

Cheng won a bronze medal at the 1952 World Table Tennis Championships in the Swaythling Cup (men's team event) when representing Hong Kong. The team consisted of Chung Chin Sing, Keung Wing Ning, Fu Chi Fong and Suh Sui Cho.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Cheng Kwok Wing” is hong Kong table tennis player. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Cheng, Kwok and Wing, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewStrongest as a route into the people, institutions and dated events that shaped the subject’s public record. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1952—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Cheng, Kwok and Wing is the immediate research focus.
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The phrase “hong Kong table tennis player” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Chronology provides the most reliable spine for this subject; interpretation should follow only after identities and dates are secure. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 27, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q52063207. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1952.

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This entry incorporates text from “Cheng Kwok Wing” 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.