Yao Ming is a Chinese-American basketball executive and former professional player. He played for the Shanghai Sharks of the Chinese Basketball Association (CBA) and the Houston Rockets of the National Basketball Association (NBA). Yao was selected to start for the Western Conference in the NBA All-Star Game eight times, and was named to the All-NBA Team five times. At the time of his final season, he was the tallest active player in the NBA, at 2.29 m. He is the only player from outside of the United States to lead the NBA in All-Star votes.
Liu Xiang is a Chinese former 110 meter hurdler. Liu is an Olympic Gold medalist and World Champion. His 2004 Olympic gold medal was the first in a men's track and field event for China.
Taufik Hidayat is a retired Indonesian badminton player. He is a former World and Olympic champion in the men's singles. He has also won the Indonesia Open six times.
Peter Høeg Gade is a retired Danish professional badminton player. He currently resides in Holte in Copenhagen. He has two children with the former handball player Camilla Høeg.
Wang Cheng-pang is a Taiwanese professional archer representing Chinese Taipei.
Oleksandr Oleksiyovych Serdyuk is an athlete from Ukraine. He competes in archery.
Xue Haifeng is an archer from the People's Republic of China.
Balzhinima Tsyrenzhapovich Tsyrempilov is a World Cup-winning and former world number one Buryat archer from Russia.
Viktor Hennadiyovych Ruban is an Olympic gold medal winning former world number one Ukrainian archer.
Lars Paaske is a badminton player from Denmark.
Fu Haifeng is a former professional badminton player representing China. He is considered to be one of the greatest men's doubles players in badminton history.
Bakhtiyar Karipullauly Artayev is a Kazakh boxer who won the gold medal for Kazakhstan at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He was also the winner of the Val Barker Trophy for the outstanding boxer of the 2004 Olympics. In recognition of his success, one of the Taraz sport centres was named after him. In 2012 he was appointed as a president of the Astana Presidential Sports Club.
Timo Boll is a German professional table tennis player, who currently plays for Borussia Düsseldorf. He is ranked second in the German Table Tennis National League, and sixth in the ITTF world rankings as of June 2019. Boll ranks among the best German table tennis players of all time, having ranked world No. 1 in 2003, 2011 and in March 2018.
Scott Evans is a former Irish professional badminton player. As of 2017 he was the highest ranked Irish player.
Originally having participated in Olympics as the delegation of the Republic of China (ROC) from 1924 to 1976, China competed at the Olympic Games under the name of the People's Republic of China (PRC) for the first time in 1952, at the Summer Games in Helsinki, Finland, although they only arrived in time to participate in one event. That year, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) allowed both the PRC and the Republic of China to compete, although the latter withdrew in protest. Due to the dispute over the political status of China, the PRC did not participate in the Olympics again until the 1980 Winter Olympics in Lake Placid, United States. Their first appearance at the Summer Olympic Games after 1952 was the 1984 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, United States.
Kanat Islam is a Kazakh professional boxer who currently lives and trains in Miami as part of Nelsons promotion company and co-promoted by Zef Ramirez of ZR Entertainment. Islam was a Chinese amateur boxer of Kazakh ancestry best known for winning bronze at welterweight at the 2008 Summer Olympics, the 2007 World Amateur Boxing Championships, and the 2006 Asian Games.
Jaoid Chiguer, by some sources spelled Jaouad is a French amateur boxer who qualified for the 2008 Olympics at welterweight.
The Republic of the Congo sent a delegation to compete at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, China.
David Cameron Lee is an American volleyball player, currently playing for Indian Club, Kochi Blue Spikers. As a member of the United States men's national volleyball team, he is an Olympic Champion at the 2008 Summer Olympics, an Olympic bronze medalist at the 2016 Summer Olympics, and a three-time Olympian. He is also a two-time NORCECA Champion, a gold medalist at the 2015 World Cup, and a gold medalist of the World League.
The 1st AIBA Asian 2004 Olympic Boxing Qualifying Tournament was held in Guangzhou, PR China from March 18 to March 23, 2004. It was the first chance for amateur boxers from Asia to qualify for the 2004 Summer Olympics after the 2004 Asian Amateur Boxing Championships in Puerto Princesa, Philippines from January 11 to 18, 2004. The top two boxers in each weight division gained a place in the Olympics, with the exception of the heavyweight and super heavyweight divisions in which just the winner was entered.
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