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Cheng Long (swimmer)

Chinese swimmer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ108044061 ↗
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Cheng Long (Chinese: 程龙; born 25 May 2000) is a Chinese swimmer. He competed in the men's 800 metre freestyle at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

At the 2018 Junior Pan Pacific Swimming Championships, in Suva, Fiji, Long won the gold medal in the 1500 metre freestyle with a time of 15:24.55 and the silver medal in the 800 metre freestyle with a time of 8:02.79.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2020, 2018, 1500—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-05-25. For this dossier, Cheng, Long and swimmer is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Cheng Long (swimmer)” 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.