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Gao Ludong

Chinese canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ5521612 ↗
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Gao Lundong (simplified Chinese: 高鲁东; traditional Chinese: 高魯東; pinyin: Gāo Lǔ Dōng; born April 18, 1960) is a Chinese sprint canoeist who competed in the mid-1980s. At the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, he was eliminated in the repechages of the K-2 500 m event.

References

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Gao Ludong". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2012-10-23.

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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—1960, 1984, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-04-18. For this dossier, Ludong, Chinese and canoeist is the immediate research focus.
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This entry incorporates text from “Gao Ludong” 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.