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Jang Dong-shin

South Korean sledge hockey player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ19661472 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jang Dong-shin (Korean: 장동신; born 10 January 1976) is a South Korean ice sledge hockey player and wheelchair fencer.

As a sledge hockey player, he played in the 2010, 2014, 2018 and 2022 Paralympic Winter Games. He won a silver medal at the 2012 IPC Ice Sledge Hockey World Championships.

Editorial summary

“Jang Dong-shin” enters the record as south Korean sledge hockey player. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Jang, Dong-shin and South can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1976, 2010, 2014, 2018—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1976-01-10. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Jang, Dong-shin and South.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

“Jang Dong-shin” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Jang, Dong-shin and South provides the most credible route into that argument.

Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q19661472. VIAF identifies the subject as 26154590084443080722. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1976, 2010, 2014 and 2018.

Critical limits

A concise life account rarely captures disputed attribution, private networks or the changing language used to describe a career. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

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  • Building a first chronology
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  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jang Dong-shin”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jang Dong-shin primary sources, Jang Dong-shin archive and Jang research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

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  2. How has the subject’s reputation changed across later accounts?
  3. Which claims depend on a single source or contested interpretation?
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This entry incorporates text from “Jang Dong-shin” 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.