Tang Yik Chun

Tang Yik Chun 鄧亦峻
nation	Hong Kong
birthday	23rd June 1986 (age 34)
place of birth	Hong Kong , China
size	177 cm
Weight	67 kg
Career
discipline	sprint
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Indoor Asian Games 1 × 0 × 0 × Asian Championships 1 × 2 × 1 ×
Asian Games bronze Incheon 2014 4 × 100 m Indoor Asian Games gold Bangkok 2005 60 m Asian Championships silver Kobe 2011 4 × 100 m gold Pune 2013 4 × 100 m silver Wuhan 2015 4 × 100 m bronze Bhubaneswar 2017 4 × 100 m
last change: May 5, 2019

Tang Yik Chun ( Chinese  鄧亦峻  /  邓亦峻 , Pinyin Dèng Yìjùn , Jyutping Dang ⁶ Jik ⁶ zeon ³ ; born June 23, 1986 in Hong Kong ) is a Chinese sprinter who competes internationally for Hong Kong.

Athletic career

Tang Yik Chun gained his first experience in international competitions at the Junior Asian Championships in 2004 in Ipoh , where he was eliminated in the semi-finals in the 100-meter run with 10.88 s. The following year he finished fourth in the 200-meter run at the Asian Championships in Incheon in 21.01 s and won the 60-meter run at the Indoor Asian Games in Bangkok in 6.80 s . He was also sixth at the East Asian Games in Macau . In 2006 he was eliminated from the World Indoor Championships in Moscow with 6.89 s in the first round and also did not reach the final at the Asian Games in Doha over 200 meters. In 2007 he was fourth in the Asian Championships in Amman in 21.44 s and retired from the World Championships in Osaka with 21.72 s in the first round. He also finished six at the Indoor Asian Games in Macau in 6.86 s Tang. The following year he retired from the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha with 7.09 s in the preliminary round.

In 2009 he took part in the Summer Universiade in Belgrade and was eliminated there with 21.51 seconds, as well as the Asian Championships in Guangzhou with 21.60 seconds. He was also there with the Hong Kong 4 x 100 meter relay in 40.22 s seventh. He was then at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong in 21.77 s eighth and fourth with the 4-by-400-meter relay, while he was disqualified with the short sprint relay. The following year he was fourth with the relay at the Asian Games in Guangzhou and was eliminated in the first round over 200 meters with 21.67 s. In 2011 he won at the Asian Championships in Kobe with the relay in 39.26 s the silver medal behind the team from Japan. With the relay, he qualified for the first time in 2012 for the Olympic Games in London , where he was eliminated with 38.61 s in qualification . At the 2013 Asian Championships in Pune , he celebrated his greatest success to date with winning the relay in 38.94 s. He then retired at the World Championships in Moscow with the relay in the run-up and won the silver medal at the East Asian Games in Tianjin .

In 2014 he again took part in the Asian Games in Incheon, won the bronze medal there with the relay in 38.98 s and reached the semifinals in the 200-meter run, in which he was eliminated with 22.03 s. At the IAAF World Relays 2015 in the Bahamas he was eliminated in the preliminary run and won the silver medal behind China in 39.25 s at the Asian Championships in Wuhan . In the individual competition he was eliminated there with 21.54 s in the semifinals. In 2016, the end of the first round at the Indoor Asian Championships in Doha followed in 6.93 s. In 2017 he won the bronze medal at the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar with 39.54 s with the relay behind China and Thailand. In 2018 he took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta for the fourth time , where he was eliminated in the first round with 21.89 seconds. The following year he finished fifth at the Asian Championships in Doha with the relay in 39.91 s.

Personal best

• 100 meters: 10.50 s (+0.5 m / s), May 8, 2011 in Hong Kong
  • 60 meters (hall): 6.80 s, November 13, 2005 in Bangkok
• 200 meters: 20.94 s (+0.6 m / s), April 16, 2005 in Hong Kong

Web links

• Tang Yik Chun in the database of World Athletics (English)
• Tang Yik Chun in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

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