Olympic history of Chinese Taipei
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The Republic of China (Taiwan) has been participating in the Olympic Games since 1956. Between 1912 and 1928, athletes from the island of Taiwan could start for Japan because Japan occupied the island after the Sino-Japanese War of 1894/95 . From 1932 to 1948, Chinese athletes from Taiwan competed with athletes from mainland China as members of the Republic of China team . After the Kuomintang withdrew to the island of Taiwan at the end of the Chinese civil war , China was represented by Taiwan at the Olympic Games. Because of this, the People's Republic of China , founded in 1949, did not take part. After the boycott of the 1976 and 1980 Games, an agreement was reached whereby both Chinese teams could take part in the Olympic Games. The People's Republic of China participated as China . Taiwan adopted the name Chinese Taipei . She was assigned a special Olympic flag. Since then, the national flag song has been played at award ceremonies .
Overview
Summer games
Republic of China
The Republic of China's first Olympic team in Melbourne in 1956 consisted of athletes, boxers, weightlifters, shooters and a basketball team. Athletes from Taiwan competed in later Olympic Games in swimming and soccer (from 1960), judo, cycling and gymnastics (from 1964), sailing (from 1968), archery and wrestling (from 1972), fencing and modern pentathlon (from 1984 ), Table tennis (from 1988), baseball (from 1992), badminton, diving, softball and tennis (from 1996), taekwondo (from 2000), rowing (from 2004) as well as horse riding and golf (from 2016).
The first Olympians in Taiwan were on November 22, 1956, the members of the basketball team that competed against the team of South Korea. The first individual athletes a day later were the athletes Yang Chuan-Kwang in the high jump and Tsai Cheng-Fu as well as the weightlifters Song Re-Nado in the bantamweight and Lim Jose-Ning in the featherweight.
Yang Chuan-Kwang became Taiwan's first medalist in 1960 when he won the silver medal in the decathlon. The athletes Chi Cheng and Lin Chau-Tai were Taiwan's first women to compete in the Olympic Games. In 1964, Yang finished fifth in the decathlon. Chi Cheng won the second medal for her country in Mexico City in 1968 with a bronze over 80 meter hurdles. She also finished seventh over 100 meters.
Chinese Taipei
Weightlifter Tsai Wen-Yee became the first athlete to win a medal called Chinese Taipei in 1984. The special Olympic flag was raised for the first time for the bronze medalist in the featherweight division. In the first Olympic baseball tournament in Barcelona in 1992, the Taiwanese team won the silver medal. In the final they lost to Cuba 1:11. In archery, Lai Fang-Mei finished seventh in 1996 in Atlanta, Chen Jing won the silver medal in the women's table tennis singles. In the final she lost to the Chinese Deng Yaping . Chen competed for the People's Republic of China in 1988 and became an individual Olympic champion. She also won silver in doubles. The marksman Huang I-Chien finished sixth in the double trap.
2000 in Sydney was the most successful participation to date. A total of five medals could be won. In table tennis, Chen Jing once again won bronze in singles. In Taekwondo, Huang Chih-hsiung won bronze in the men's flyweight and Chi Shu-Ju in the women's flyweight. The weightlifters were even more successful. Li Fengying won silver in the featherweight division . Kuo Yi-Hang won bronze in the heavyweight division. In the men's category, Wang Shin-Yuan took fourth place in the bantamweight category. The shooter Lin Yi-Chun took 4th place in the double trap.
In 2004 in Athens the first Olympic victories could be celebrated. In the men's flyweight division, Chu Mu-yen was the Olympic champion, and in the women's division, Chen Shih-hsien won the same weight class. Huang Chih-Hsiung won silver in the men's featherweight division. The archers were also able to win two medals. The men's team lost to South Korea in the final and won silver. The women's team defeated the German team in the quarter-finals, lost to the People's Republic of China in the semi-finals and thus achieved the bronze medal. In the individual competitions, Chen Szu-yuan came in 7th place for men, Chen Li-Ju came in 4th place and Wu Hui-Ju took 6th place in women.
In Beijing 2008, weightlifters Chen Wei-Ling in the flyweight division and Lu Ying-Chi in the middleweight division each took third place. In the flyweight category, the two first place winners, the Chinese Chen Xiexia and the Turkish Sibel Özkan , were convicted of doping and subsequently disqualified. This made Chen the new Olympic champion. In the middleweight division, the winner Irina Nekrasova was disqualified for doping. Lu was thus awarded the silver medal. In the men's category, Yang Chin-Yi took fourth place in the bantamweight category. Chu Mu-yen in flyweight and Sung Yu-chi in featherweight also won two bronze medals in Taekwondo .
In 2012 in London the weightlifter Hsu Shu-ching was first in the featherweight category 2. The winner, Sülfija Tschinschanlo from Kazakhstan, was convicted of doping tests and subsequently disqualified. Hsu was thus awarded the gold medal. The Taekwondoin Tseng Li-cheng won bronze in the featherweight division. In archery, the women's team came in 5th. In the men's singles of the table tennis tournament, Chuang Chih-Yuan took 4th place.
In 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, the women's team won the bronze medal in archery. In the women's singles, Tan Ya-Ting was fifth. Kuo Hsing-chun also received bronze in the lightweight weightlifting category. Hsu Shu-ching was able to repeat her Olympic featherweight victory.
Yang Chuan-Kwang in the shot put during the 1960 Olympic decathlon, in which he won silver
Chi Cheng, bronze 1968 (photo from 1970)
Huang Chih-hsiung, bronze 2000, silver 2004
Chen Chih-hsin, Olympic gold medal in 2004
Chu Mu-yen, Olympic victory 2004, bronze 2008
Yuan Shu-chi, team bronze in archery 2004
Sung Yu-chi, bronze 2008
Hsu Shu-ching, Olympic victory in 2012 and 2016
Kuo Hsing-chun, bronze 2016
Winter games
The first two participations, 1972 and 1976, took place under the old name Republic of China . In 1972 the Olympic team consisted of alpine ski racers and a cross-country skier. Cross-country skier Liang Reng-Guey was the first Taiwanese winter Olympic athlete on February 7, 1972. The country's first women to take part in the Winter Olympics in 1984 were tobogganists Teng Pi-Hui and Chuang Lai-Chun.
After alpine skiing and cross-country skiing in 1972, Taiwanese athletes took part in the following winter games in biathlon and tobogganing (from 1976), bobsleigh (from 1984), figure skating (from 1988), speed skating and short track (from 2014).
The most successful participant was the figure skater David Liu, who reached 17th place in the individual in 1992.
Youth games
24 youth athletes, 11 boys and 13 girls, took part in the 2010 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Singapore . They competed in athletics, archery, badminton, judo, taekwondo, shooting, swimming, table tennis, tennis, and weight lifting. Three silver medals were won by the featherweight weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun, the archer Tan Ya-Ting in the singles and the table tennis player Hung Tzu-hsiang in the singles.
47 young people, 23 boys and 24 girls, competed in the 2014 Summer Youth Games in Nanjing . They participated in athletics, archery, basketball, badminton, beach volleyball, boxing, golf, judo, sailing, shooting, swimming, taekwondo, table tennis, triathlon, and weight lifting. The young athletes won three gold, three silver and two bronze medals. Olympic champions were the Taekwondoin Huang Huai-hsuan in the girls 'featherweight division and Huang Yu-jen in the boys' featherweight division, and the middleweight weightlifter Chiang Nien-hsin. Silver went to the golfer Cheng Szu-Chia, the taekwondo fighter Wang Chen-yu in the flyweight division and the boxer Chen Nien-chin in the middleweight division. Bronze went to the athlete Yang Chun-han in the 200-meter run and the Taekwondoin Chen Zih-ting in the flyweight. Badminton player Chia Hsin-lee (silver in mixed doubles), judoka Wang Yu-Jyun (silver with Team Geesink ) and shooter Lu Shao-chuan (bronze) won medals in mixed teams that do not appear in the medal balance of Chinese Taipei in the mixed air rifle team).
At the 2012 Winter Youth Games in Innsbruck , four teenagers, three boys and one girl, competed in alpine skiing, tobogganing and short track. Also at the 2016 Winter Youth Games in Lillehammer were four youngsters, again three boys and one girl. They participated in the sports of alpine skiing, ice hockey (skill competition for individual athletes), tobogganing and skeleton.
IOC members
Engineer and entrepreneur Wu Ching-Kuo has been an IOC member since 1988. The President of the World Federation of Olympic Boxing Sports, AIBA, is chairman of the Commission for Culture and Olympic Heritage.
Overview of the participants
Summer games
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| 1896-1908 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1912-1928 | Participation for Japan | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1932-1948 | Participation for the Republic of China | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1952 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1956 | 20th | 20th | 0 | 4th | 1 | 3 | 1 | 11 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 | 27 | 24 | 3 | 6th | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 13 | 1 | 1 | 32 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1964 | 40 | 37 | 3 | 5 | 7th | 7th | 6th | 4th | 4th | 7th | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1968 | 43 | 35 | 8th | 11 | 3 | 5 | 8th | 4th | 5 | 4th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 42 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1972 | 21st | 15th | 6th | Chi Cheng | 7th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1976-1980 | not participated | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1984 | 38 | 31 | 7th | Lee Fu-An | 10 | 2 | 4th | 3 | 5 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 43 | |||||||||||||||
| 1988 | 61 | 43 | 18th | Lee Fu-An | 12 | 2 | 7th | 3 | 8th | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4th | 6th | 2 | 2 | 6th | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992 | 31 | 23 | 8th | Wang Kuang-Shih | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 3 | 20th | 1 | 1 | 49 | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | 74 | 32 | 42 | Tu Tsai-hsing | 7th | 1 | 4th | 2 | 8th | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6th | 6th | 15th | 3 | 6th | 2 | 1 | 1 | 61 | |||||||||||||
| 2000 | 55 | 21st | 34 | Chiang Peng-Lung | 2 | 4th | 1 | 13 | 6th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 7th | 2 | 5 | 4th | 4th | 1 | 4th | 5 | 58 | ||||||||||||
| 2004 | 88 | 49 | 39 | Chen Chih-Yuan | 2 | 7th | 2 | 13 | 2 | 1 | 6th | 4th | 24 | 15th | 1 | 5 | 4th | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 5 | 31 | |||||||||||
| 2008 | 79 | 43 | 36 | Lai Sheng-jung | 3 | 5 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 6th | 5 | 23 | 15th | 3 | 4th | 4th | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4th | 45 | ||||||||||
| 2012 | 44 | 19th | 25th | Chen Shih-Chieh | 6th | 4th | 3 | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6th | 1 | 3 | 3 | 8th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 49 | ||||||||||||
| 2016 | 57 | 26th | 18th | Wong I-sheau | 6th | 2 | 6th | 4th | 2 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 6th | 3 | 3 | 4th | 3 | 1 | 1 | 4th | 1 | 2 | 3 | 50 | ||||||||
| total | 5 | 7th | 12 | 24 | 76 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Winter games
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| 1924-1928 | Participation for Japan | |||||||||||||||
| 1932-1948 | Participation for the Republic of China | |||||||||||||||
| 1952-1968 | not participated | |||||||||||||||
| 1972 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 4th | 1 | |||||||||||
| 1976 | 6th | 6th | 0 | 1 | 3 | 2 | 2 | |||||||||
| 1980 | not participated | |||||||||||||||
| 1984 | 12 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 1 | 3 | 5 | ||||||||
| 1988 | 13 | 11 | 2 | Chen Chin-san | 5 | 2 | 5 | 2 | ||||||||
| 1992 | 13 | 11 | 2 | 3 | 4th | 1 | ||||||||||
| 1994 | 2 | 2 | 0 | Sun Kuang-ming | 2 | |||||||||||
| 1998 | 7th | 6th | 1 | Sun Kuang-ming | 2 | 4th | 1 | |||||||||
| 2002 | 6th | 6th | 0 | Lin Chui-bin | 2 | 4th | ||||||||||
| 2006 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Ma Chih-hung | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2010 | 1 | 1 | 0 | Ma Chih-hung | 1 | |||||||||||
| 2014 | 3 | 3 | 0 | Sung Ching-yang | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||||||||
| 2018 | 4th | 3 | 1 | Lien Te-an | 1 | 3 | ||||||||||
| total | 0 | 0 | 0 | - | ||||||||||||
Medalist
Gold medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Chu Mu-yen | 2004 Athens | Taekwondo | Flyweight |
| Chen Shih-hsin | 2004 Athens | Taekwondo | Flyweight |
| Chen Wei-Ling | 2008 Beijing | Weightlifting | Flyweight |
| Hsu Shu-ching | 2012 London | Weightlifting | Featherweight |
| Hsu Shu-ching | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Weightlifting | Featherweight |
Silver medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Yang Chuan-Kwang | 1960 Rome | athletics | Decathlon |
| National baseball team | 1992 Barcelona | baseball | |
| Chen Jing | 1996 Atlanta | Table tennis | singles |
| Li Fengying | 2000 Sydney | Weightlifting | Featherweight |
| Huang Chih-hsiung | 2004 Athens | Taekwondo | Featherweight |
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Chen Szu-yuan Liu Ming-huang Wang Cheng-pang |
2004 Athens | Archery | Men's team |
| Lu Ying-Chi | 2008 Beijing | Weightlifting | medium weight |
Bronze medals
| Surname | Games | sport | discipline |
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| Chi Cheng | 1968 Mexico City | athletics | 80 meter hurdles |
| Tsai Wen-yee | 1984 Los Angeles | Weightlifting | Featherweight |
| Huang Chih-hsiung | 2000 Sydney | Taekwondo | Flyweight |
| Chi Shu-ju | 2000 Sydney | Taekwondo | Flyweight |
| Kuo Yi-hang | 2000 Sydney | Weightlifting | Heavyweight |
| Chen Jing | 2000 Sydney | Table tennis | singles |
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Chen Li-ju Wu Hui-ju Yuan Shu-chi |
2004 Athens | Archery | Women's team |
| Chu Mu-yen | 2008 Beijing | Taekwondo | Flyweight |
| Sung Yu-chi | 2008 Beijing | Taekwondo | Featherweight |
| Tseng Li-cheng | 2012 London | Taekwondo | Featherweight |
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Le Chien-ying Lin Shih-chia Tan Ya-ting |
2016 Rio de Janeiro | Archery | Women's team |
| Kuo Hsing-chun | 2016 Rio de Janeiro | Weightlifting | lightweight |
Medals by sport
| sport | gold | silver | bronze | total |
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| Weightlifting | 3 | 2 | 3 | 8th |
| Taekwondo | 2 | 1 | 5 | 8th |
| Archery | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| athletics | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Table tennis | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| baseball | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| total | 5 | 7th | 12 | 24 |
See also
Web links
- Chinese Taipei in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
- International Olympic Committee
- Website of the NOK of Chinese Taipei (chin.)
Individual evidence
- ↑ IOC announcement of January 12, 2017 (Eng.)
- ↑ Sport 1 on July 22, 2016
- ↑ Sport 1 on November 17, 2016
- ↑ Zeit Online on June 16, 2016 ( Memento of the original from December 3, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ a b Biathletes also took part in cross-country skiing.
- ↑ The tobogganist Sun Kuang-Ming also took part in bobsleigh
