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Wang Yan (archer)

Chinese archer (born 2000)

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ128996300 ↗
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Wang Yan (born 12 February 2000) is a Chinese archer competing in recurve events. He competed at the 2024 Paris Olympics.

Career

He competed for China at the Archery World Cup stage 3 event in Antalya in June 2024. They reached the semi finals before ultimately winning their bronze medal match.

He competed for China at the Archery at the 2024 Summer Olympics in the Men's team event. They reached the semi final with a win over Taiwan. Following that, the team had consecutive defeats to South Korea in the semi final and Turkey in the bronze medal match, to place fourth overall.

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This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Wang Yan (archer)” as chinese archer (born 2000). Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2000, 2024—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 2000-02-12. The account is most persuasive where Wang, archer and Chinese can be independently traced.
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This entry incorporates text from “Wang Yan (archer)” 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.