Huang Chih-hsiung
Huang Chih-hsiung 
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 Chinese Taipei
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| Birthday: | October 16, 1976 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth: | New Taipei | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Size: | 172 cm | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight: | 64 kg | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Huang Chih-hsiung ( Chinese 黃志雄 , Pinyin Húang Zhìxióng , born October 16, 1976 in New Taipei ) is a former Taiwanese Taekwondoin and current politician . In the fly and featherweight division, he won two Olympic medals and was twice world champion .
Career
Huang celebrated his first international success at the 1995 World Cup in Manila when he won the bronze medal in the weight class up to 58 kilograms. The following year he was vice Asian champion in the same weight class, in 1997 in Hong Kong he won the world championship. In 2000 he took part in the Olympic Games for the first time . In his weight class he was first defeated in the quarterfinals by the later Olympic champion Michalis Mouroutsos 1: 2, before he secured bronze with two wins in the hope round . At the Asian Games in Busan in 2002 , he won the gold medal in the weight class up to 62 kilograms, and a year later he became world champion for the second time in Garmisch-Partenkirchen . The last international tournament played Huang at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens in the weight class up to 68 kilograms. After three wins, he met Hadi Saei Bonehkohal in the final , against whom he lost 3: 4 and thus won the silver medal.
After his career in Taekwondo, Huang turned to politics. He ran for the Kuomintang in the 2004 general election and won the election in his district. He defended his seat as a member of the Legislative Yuan in both 2008 and 2012 and served in the Taiwanese parliament for a total of twelve years from his first election to February 1, 2016.
Web links
- Huang Chih-hsiung in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- Huang Chih-hsiung on the TaekwondoData .com website
Individual evidence
- ^ Legislators. ( Memento from November 24, 2005 in the Internet Archive ) ly.gov.tw (English)
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| SURNAME | Huang Chih-hsiung |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | 黃志雄 (Chinese); Húang Zhìxióng (Pinyin) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Taiwanese Taekwondoin |
| DATE OF BIRTH | October 16, 1976 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | New Taipei , Taiwan |