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Zong Xiangqing

Chinese fencer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 2, 2026
Entity authorityQ8073960 ↗
Source-derived summary

Zong Xiangqing (Chinese: 宗祥慶, born 4 October 1960) is a Chinese fencer. He competed in the individual and team épée events at the 1984 Summer Olympics.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Zong Xiangqing” as chinese fencer. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Zong, Xiangqing and Chinese.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1984—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-06-10. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Zong, Xiangqing and Chinese 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 Jul 2, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q8073960. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 1960 and 1984.

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This entry incorporates text from “Zong Xiangqing” 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.