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Wang Mingjuan

Chinese weightlifter

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ236721 ↗
Source-derived summary

Wang Mingjuan (Chinese: 王明娟; pinyin: Wáng Míngjuān; born October 11, 1985, in Yongzhou, Hunan) is a Chinese weightlifter, Olympic champion, and four time world champion.

Career

She competed at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Women's 48 kg division, winning the gold medal.

Over the course of her career she set 12 senior world records.

Editorial summary

This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wang Mingjuan” as chinese weightlifter. 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—1985, 2012—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1985-10-11. The account is most persuasive where Wang, Mingjuan and Chinese can be independently traced.
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The subject matters to the general reference register because the source frames it as chinese weightlifter. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.

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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 Jun 30, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q236721. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1985 and 2012.

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This entry incorporates text from “Wang Mingjuan” 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.