Chinese Taipei at the Olympics

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Chinese Taipei at the
Olympics
IOC codeTPE
NOCChinese Taipei Olympic Committee
Websitewww.tpenoc.net (in Chinese and English)
Medals
Ranked 64th
Gold
7
Silver
11
Bronze
18
Total
36
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
 Republic of China (1924–1948)

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), competes as "Chinese Taipei" (TPE) at the Olympic Games since 1984. Athletes compete under the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag instead of the flag of the Republic of China; for any medal ceremony, the National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China is played instead of the National Anthem of the Republic of China.

Taiwanese athletes won their first Olympic medal in 1960, and their first gold medal in 2004, and their highest total medal count in 2020 games.

Participation

Timeline of participation

Date Team
1932–1936 China as part of  Japan
1948 China
1952 People's Republic of China
1956 Republic of China
1960 Formosa (RCF)
1964–1968 Taiwan (TWN)
1972–1976 Republic of China (ROC)
1980  China (CHN)
1984–  Chinese Taipei (TPE)

Medals

List of medalists

Medal Players/Players in the team Games Sport Event
 Silver Yang Chuan-kwang 1960 Rome Athletics Men's decathlon
 Bronze Chi Cheng 1968 Mexico City Athletics Women's 80 metre hurdles
 Bronze Tsai Wen-yee 1984 Los Angeles Weightlifting Men's 60 kg
 Silver Chang Cheng-hsien
Chang Wen-chung
Chang Yaw-teing
Chen Chi-hsin
Chen Wei-chen
Chiang Tai-chuan
Huang Chung-yi
Huang Wen-po
Jong Yeu-jeng
Ku Kuo-chian
Kuo Lee Chien-fu
Liao Ming-hsiung
Lin Chao-huang
Lin Kun-han
Lo Chen-jung
Lo Kuo-chong
Pai Kun-hong
Tsai Ming-hung
Wang Kuang-shih
Wu Shih-hsih
1992 Barcelona Baseball Men's competition
 Silver Chen Jing 1996 Atlanta Table tennis Women's singles
 Silver Li Feng-ying 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women's 53 kg
 Bronze Chen Jing 2000 Sydney Table tennis Women's singles
 Bronze Chi Shu-ju 2000 Sydney Taekwondo Women's 49 kg
 Bronze Huang Chih-hsiung 2000 Sydney Taekwondo Men's 58 kg
 Bronze Kuo Yi-hang 2000 Sydney Weightlifting Women's 75 kg
 Gold Chen Shih-hsin 2004 Athens Taekwondo Women's flyweight
 Gold Chu Mu-yen 2004 Athens Taekwondo Men's flyweight
 Silver Chen Szu-yuan
Liu Ming-huang
Wang Cheng-pang
2004 Athens Archery Men's team
 Silver Huang Chih-hsiung 2004 Athens Taekwondo Men's lightweight
 Bronze Chen Li-ju
Wu Hui-ju
Yuan Shu-chi
2004 Athens Archery Women's team
 Gold Chen Wei-ling 2008 Beijing Weightlifting Women's 48 kg
 Silver Lu Ying-chi 2008 Beijing Weightlifting Women's 63 kg
 Bronze Chu Mu-yen 2008 Beijing Taekwondo Men's 58 kg
 Bronze Sung Yu-chi 2008 Beijing Taekwondo Men's 68 kg
 Gold Hsu Shu-ching 2012 London Weightlifting Women's 53 kg
 Bronze Tseng Li-cheng 2012 London Taekwondo Women's 57 kg
 Gold Hsu Shu-ching 2016 Rio de Janeiro Weightlifting Women's 53 kg
 Bronze Lei Chien-ying
Lin Shih-chia
Tan Ya-ting
2016 Rio de Janeiro Archery Women's team
 Bronze Kuo Hsing-chun 2016 Rio de Janeiro Weightlifting Women's 58 kg
 Gold Kuo Hsing-chun 2020 Tokyo Weightlifting Women's 59 kg
 Gold Lee Yang
Wang Chi-lin
2020 Tokyo Badminton Men's doubles
 Silver Yang Yung-wei 2020 Tokyo Judo Men's 60 kg
 Silver Deng Yu-cheng
Tang Chih-chun
Wei Chun-heng
2020 Tokyo Archery Men's team
 Silver Lee Chih-kai
2020 Tokyo Gymnastics Men's pommel horse
 Silver Tai Tzu-ying 2020 Tokyo Badminton Women's singles
 Bronze Lo Chia-ling 2020 Tokyo Taekwondo Women's 57 kg
 Bronze Lin Yun-ju
Cheng I-ching
2020 Tokyo Table tennis Mixed doubles
 Bronze Chen Wen-huei 2020 Tokyo Weightlifting Women's 64 kg
 Bronze Pan Cheng-tsung 2020 Tokyo Golf Men's individual
 Bronze Huang Hsiao-wen 2020 Tokyo Boxing Women's flyweight
 Bronze Wen Tzu-yun 2020 Tokyo Karate Women's 55 kg

Timeline concerning Olympic recognition

The following timeline concerns the different names and principal events concerning recognition of the Republic of China (ROC) Olympic team:

  • 1922 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the National Olympic Committee in China.
  • 1932 – ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China.
  • 1949 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation moves to Taiwan.
  • 1952 – ROC team withdraws from the Helsinki Olympics because the IOC permits the People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate.
  • 1954 – IOC adopts a resolution officially recognising the PRC's Chinese Olympic Committee.
  • 1956 – ROC represents at Melbourne Games as the Republic of China. PRC withdraws from the Games in protest because two Chinese Olympic Committees are in the list of IOC members.
  • 1958 – PRC withdraws from Olympic movement and all federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Dong Shouyi, an IOC member for the PRC resigns.
  • 1959 – IOC informs the ROC that they do not control sport on Mainland China, rules determine the ROC will no longer be recognised under the "Chinese Olympic Committee" title. All applications under a different name would be considered.
  • 1960 – ROC committee is renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognised.
  • 1963 – IOC recognizes the name "Taiwan", and the NOC is allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits.
  • 1968 – IOC agrees to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner.
  • 1976 – ROC is not permitted to participate in the Montreal Summer Games, as long as it insists on the name of Republic of China, because the host country, Canada, recognises the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.
  • 1979 – IOC recognises the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official representative of China. The IOC decision is followed by a postal ballot among 89 members. Under the IOC decision, the ROC's Olympics committee would renamed as "Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee" and is not allowed to use the ROC's national anthem or flag.
  • 1980 – ROC boycotts the Lake Placid Winter Games and the Moscow Summer Games due to the decision to use the name Chinese Taipei in international sporting events.
  • 1981 – An agreement is signed in Lausanne by Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the IOC, and Shen Chia-ming, the president of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC). The agreement specifies the name, flag and emblem of the CTOC.
  • 1984 – Chinese Taipei competes for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Winter Games.

See also

References

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