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Song Yiling

Chinese sport climber

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 28, 2026
Entity authorityQ83437653 ↗
Source-derived summary

Song Yiling (born 28 January 2001) is a Chinese competition climber who specializes in competition speed climbing. She finished second in the speed climbing event at the 2017 and 2018 Asian Climbing Championships. She qualified for the combined event at the 2020 Summer Olympics, where she finished 12th out of 20 competitors.

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The public source identifies “Song Yiling” as chinese sport climber. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Song, Yiling and Chinese.

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—2001, 2017, 2018, 2020—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Song, Yiling and Chinese providing the first useful test.
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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 Aug 28, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q83437653. The first chronological checks are 2001, 2017, 2018 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from “Song Yiling” 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.