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Liu Zixu

Chinese Para biathlete and cross-country skier (born 1997)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ111103945 ↗
Source-derived summary

Liu Zixu (born 27 August 1997) is a Chinese Para biathlete and cross-country skier who competed at the 2022 and 2026 Winter Paralympics.

Career

Liu represented China at the 2022 Winter Paralympics and won a gold medal in the men's 6 kilometres sitting event. This was China's first gold medal at the 2022 Winter Paralympics, and their second-ever Winter Paralympics gold. He also won a bronze medal in the men's 12.5 kilometres event.

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Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Liu Zixu” is chinese Para biathlete and cross-country skier (born 1997). The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Zixu, Chinese and Para, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1997, 2022, 2026—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-08-27. For this dossier, Zixu, Chinese and Para is the immediate research focus.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 21, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q111103945. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997, 2022 and 2026.

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This entry incorporates text from “Liu Zixu” 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.