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| Born | 25 September 2000 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | China | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Canoe sprint | |||||||||||||||||
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Wang Nan (born 25 September 2000) is a Chinese canoeist. She qualified in the women's K-2 500 metres and women's K-4 500 metres events at the 2020 Summer Olympics. [1]
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