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Yin Mengdie

Chinese canoeist

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ107690148
Source-derived summary

Yin Mengdie (殷梦蝶, born 17 November 1997) is a Chinese canoeist. She competed in the women's K-1 200 metres and the K-1 500 metres events at the 2020 Summer Olympics.

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“Yin Mengdie” enters the record as chinese canoeist. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mengdie, Chinese and canoeist can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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—1997, 2020—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1997-11-17. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Mengdie, Chinese and canoeist.
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“Yin Mengdie” is worth following because a concise public description often conceals a longer documentary argument. Here, Mengdie, Chinese and canoeist provides the most credible route into that argument.

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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 Sep 10, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q107690148. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1997 and 2020.

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This entry incorporates text from Yin Mengdie” 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.