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Ra Yoon-soo

South Korean speed skater

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ16183703 ↗
Source-derived summary

Ra Yoon-soo (Korean: 나윤수; Hanja: 羅潤洙; RR: Na Yunsu, born 20 August 1962) is a South Korean speed skater. He competed at the 1980 Winter Olympics and the 1984 Winter Olympics.

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“Ra Yoon-soo” enters the record as south Korean speed skater. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Yoon-soo, South and Korean can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1962, 1980, 1984—that can be checked directly. The authority record carries competing date values—1962-08, 1962-08-20—which should remain separate until their references and qualifiers are resolved. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Yoon-soo, South and Korean.
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Why this record matters

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

Evidence profile

The citation trail is more important than the brevity of the summary: it shows where individual claims can be examined in context. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q16183703. 2 of 2 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1962, 1980 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Ra Yoon-soo” 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.