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Jaegal Sung-yeol

South Korean speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 25, 2026
Entity authorityQ497685 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jaegal Sung-yeol (Korean: 제갈성렬; Hanja: 諸葛成烈; born 24 March 1970 in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi Province) is a former speed skater from South Korea. At the 1992 Winter Olympics, he finished 12th in the 500 m long track speed skating.

References

Skateresults.com

Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Jegal Seong-Ryeol". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 2020-04-17.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Jaegal Sung-yeol” as south Korean speed skater. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

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—1970, 1992, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1970-03-24. The account is most persuasive where Jaegal, Sung-yeol and South can be independently traced.
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Why this record matters

The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as south Korean speed skater. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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 Jun 25, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q497685. VIAF identifies the subject as 25149617037703751598. 1 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1970, 1992 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Jaegal Sung-yeol” 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.