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Yang Fung

Hong Kong sailor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJan 3, 2025
Entity authorityQ96654342 ↗
Source-derived summary

Yang Fung (born 9 November 1968) is a Hong Kong sailor. He competed in the Laser event at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Yang Fung” as hong Kong sailor. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Yang, Fung and Hong.

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—1968, 1996—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1968-11-09. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Yang, Fung and Hong providing the first useful test.
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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 Jan 3, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q96654342. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1968 and 1996.

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This entry incorporates text from “Yang Fung” 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.