Hsiang Chun-hsien

Hsiang Chun-hsien
Hsiang Chun-hsien (2015)
nation	Taiwan
birthday	4th September 1993 (age 26)
place of birth	Liugui , Taiwan
size	186 cm
Weight	70 kg
Career
discipline	high jump
Best performance	2.29 m
status	active
Medal table
Asian Championships 0 × 1 × 0 × Summer Universiade 0 × 0 × 2 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 2 ×
Asian Championships silver Wuhan 2015 2.24 m  Universiade bronze Gwangju 2015 2.28 m bronze Taipei 2017 2.26 m Junior Asian Championships bronze Hanoi 2010 2.19 m bronze Colombo 2012 2.16 m
last change: August 6, 2020

Hsiang Chun-hsien (born September 4, 1993 in Liugui ) is a Taiwanese high jumper .

Athletic career

Hsiang Chun-hsien gained his first international experience in 2009 when he finished fourth at the Asian Youth Games in Singapore with a skipped 2.00 m. The following year he won at the Junior Asian Championships in Hanoi with a height of 2.19 m, the bronze medal and thus qualified for the Junior World Championships in Moncton , where he was eliminated without a valid height in the qualification. He also took part in the first-ever Youth Olympic Games in Singapore, where he came in sixth with 2.11 m. He then retired at the Asian Games in Guangzhou with 2.05 m in qualification. In 2011 he finished seventh at the Asian Championships in Kobe with 2.18 m and in 2012 he won the bronze medal again at the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo with 2.16 m and was eliminated from the qualification at the Junior World Championships in Barcelona with 2.14 m.

In 2014 he reached ninth place at the Asian Indoor Championships in Hangzhou with a height of 2.10 m and then took part again in the Asian Games in Incheon , but could not cross any height there. The following year he won the silver medal behind the Japanese Takashi Etō at the Asian Championships in Wuhan with a skipped 2.24 m and then secured the bronze medal behind the Russian Daniil Zyplakow and at the Summer Universiade in Gwangju with a new national record of 2.28 m Matúš Bubeník from Slovenia. He also qualified for the World Championships in Beijing , where he did not reach the final with 2.22 m . In 2016 he took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro for the first time, but retired there with 2.17 m in qualification . In 2017 he finished sixth at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 2.20 m and then won the bronze medal behind the German Falk Wendrich and Maro Fassinotti from Italy at the World Student Games in Taipei with 2.26 m .

In 2018 he reached the final of his third Asian Games in Jakarta , but failed to make a valid attempt there. The following year he reached twelfth place at the Asian Championships in Doha with a skipped 2.15 m.

Personal bests

• High jump: 2.29 m, October 21, 2015 in Kaohsiung ( Taiwanese record )
  • High jump (indoor): 2.10 m, February 16, 2014 in Hangzhou ( Taiwanese record )

Web links

• Hsiang Chun-hsien in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Hsiang Chun-hsien in the database of Olympedia.org (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Hsiang is the family name here, Chun-hsien is the first name.