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Fei Xiang (decathlete)

Chinese athlete

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ134624372 ↗
Source-derived summary

Fei Xiang (born 9 September 1998) is a Chinese multi-event athlete. He won the gold medal in decathlon at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships.

Career

He won the indoor heptathlon at the Chinese Indoor Championships in March 2025.

He was the gold medalist in decathlon at the 2025 Asian Athletics Championships in Gumi, South Korea on 28 May 2025 with a tally of 7634 points. He won the decathlon at the Chinese Athletics Championships in August 2025.

He competed in decathlon for China at the 2025 World Athletics Championships in Tokyo, Japan, placing fourteenth overall.

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Editorial reviewA concise reference frame for defining the subject, testing terminology and identifying the institution closest to the evidence. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1998, 2025—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1998-09-09. For this dossier, Xiang, decathlete and Chinese is the immediate research focus.
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Vocabulary and entity names are the principal evidence signals here, because they determine the precision of every later search. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q134624372. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1998 and 2025.

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This entry incorporates text from “Fei Xiang (decathlete)” 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.