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Kang Dong-jin

South Korean professional racing cyclist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionFeb 18, 2026
Entity authorityQ19518359 ↗
Source-derived summary

Kang Dong-jin (Korean: 강동진, Korean pronunciation: [kaŋ.doŋ.dʑin] or [kaŋ] [toŋ.dʑin]; born 23 December 1987) is a South Korean professional racing cyclist. He rode at the 2015 UCI Track Cycling World Championships. He competed at the 2006 and 2014 Asian Games.

In 2010 he was suspended for two years after he failed a drug test for methyltestosterone doping.

Editorial summary

“Kang Dong-jin” enters the record as south Korean professional racing cyclist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Kang, Dong-jin and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1987, 2015, 2006, 2014—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1987-12-23. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Kang, Dong-jin and South.
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“Kang Dong-jin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Kang, Dong-jin and South 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 Feb 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19518359. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1987, 2015, 2006 and 2014.

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This entry incorporates text from “Kang Dong-jin” 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.