Chinese Taipei at the 2020 Summer Olympics | |
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IOC code | TPE |
NOC | Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee |
Website | www |
in Tokyo, Japan July 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021 | |
Competitors | 68 in 18 sports |
Flag bearers (opening) | Kuo Hsing-chun Lu Yen-hsun |
Flag bearer (closing) | Chen Chieh |
Medals Ranked 34th |
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Summer Olympics appearances (overview) | |
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Taiwan competed under the designated name "Chinese Taipei" at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. [1] It was also the nation's tenth consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.
Taiwan rewards their Olympic gold medalists with 20 million New Taiwan dollars (US $716,000) and additionally rewards their athletes who finish from second to seventh or eighth in their events with proportionate trickled down amounts. [2]
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The following is the list of number of competitors in the Games.
Sport | Men | Women | Total |
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Archery | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Athletics | 5 | 1 | 6 |
Badminton | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Boxing | 0 | 4 | 4 |
Canoeing | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Cycling | 1 | 0 | 1 |
Equestrian | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Golf | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Gymnastics | 4 | 1 | 5 |
Judo | 1 | 2 | 3 |
Karate | 1 | 1 | 2 |
Rowing | 0 | 1 | 1 |
Shooting | 2 | 3 | 5 |
Swimming | 2 | 1 | 3 |
Table tennis | 3 | 3 | 6 |
Taekwondo | 2 | 2 | 4 |
Tennis | 1 | 4 | 5 |
Weightlifting | 3 | 4 | 7 |
Total | 33 | 35 | 68 |
Taiwanese archers qualified each for the men's and women's events by reaching the quarterfinal stage of their respective team recurves at the 2019 World Archery Championships in 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands. [3]
The Taiwanese archery team for the Games, led by two-time Olympian Tan Ya-ting and reigning world champion Lei Chien-ying in the women's individual recurve, was announced on 16 January 2020, based on the results at the Olympic Team Trials. [4] [5]
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Tang Chih-chun | Individual | 668 | 12 | ![]() W 7–1 | ![]() W 6–5 | ![]() W 6–5 | ![]() W 6–4 | ![]() L 2–6 | ![]() L 3–7 | 4 |
Wei Chun-heng | 661 | 21 | ![]() W 6–2 | ![]() L 5–6 | Did not advance | |||||
Deng Yu-cheng | 656 | 30 | ![]() L 4–6 | Did not advance | ||||||
Deng Yu-cheng Tang Chih-chun Wei Chun-heng | Team | 1985 | 6 | — | ![]() W 5–4 | ![]() W 5–1 | ![]() W 6–0 | ![]() L 0–6 | ![]() |
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Lin Chia-en | Individual | 651 | 21 | ![]() W 6–4 | ![]() W 7–3 | ![]() L 2–6 | Did not advance | |||
Lei Chien-ying | 640 | 30 | ![]() L 4–6 | Did not advance | ||||||
Tan Ya-ting | 646 | 27 | ![]() L 4–6 | Did not advance | ||||||
Lei Chien-ying Lin Chia-en Tan Ya-ting | Team | 1937 | 7 | — | ![]() L 2–6 | Did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Ranking round | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | ||
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Score | Seed | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Tang Chih-chun Lin Chia-en | Team | 1319 | 8 | ![]() L 3–5 | Did not advance |
Taiwanese athletes further achieved the entry standards, either by qualifying time or by world ranking, in the following track and field events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event), plus a female sprinter for Universality places: [6] [7]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final | ||||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||
Yang Chun-han | Men's 100 m | Bye | 10.21 | 5 | Did not advance | ||||
Chen Kuei-ru | Men's 110 m hurdles | 13.53 | 5 q | — | 13.57 | 6 | Did not advance | ||
Chen Chieh | Men's 400 m hurdles | 50.96 | 7 | — | Did not advance | ||||
Hsieh Hsi-en | Women's 100 m | Bye | 12.49 | 6 | Did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||
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Distance | Position | Distance | Position | ||||
Cheng Chao-tsun | Men's javelin throw | 71.20 | 30 | Did not advance | |||
Huang Shih-feng | 77.16 | 25 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered five badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF Race to Tokyo Rankings. [8]
Athlete | Event | Group stage | Elimination | Quarterfinal | Semifinal | Final / BM | ||||
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Chou Tien-chen | Men's singles | ![]() W (21–12, 21–11) | ![]() W (21–18, 16–21, 22–20) | — | 1 Q | Bye | ![]() L (14–21, 21–9, 14–21) | Did not advance | ||
Wang Tzu-wei | ![]() W (21–12, 21–15) | ![]() W (21–12, 18–21, 21–12) | — | 1 Q | ![]() L (16–21, 14–21) | Did not advance | ||||
Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin | Men's doubles | ![]() Shetty (IND) L (16–21, 21–16, 25–27) | ![]() Vendy (GBR) W (21–17, 21–14) | ![]() Sukamuljo (INA) W (21–18, 15–21, 21–17) | 2 Q | — | ![]() Watanabe (JPN) W (21–16, 21–19) | ![]() Setiawan (INA) W (21–11, 21–10) | ![]() Liu Yc (CHN) W (21–18, 21–12) | ![]() |
Tai Tzu-ying | Women's singles | ![]() W (21–7, 21–13) | ![]() W (21–16, 21–11) | ![]() W (21–10, 21–13) | 1 Q | Bye | ![]() W (14–21, 21–18, 21–18) | ![]() W (21–18, 21–12) | ![]() L (18–21, 21–19, 18–21) | ![]() |
Chinese Taipei entered four female boxers into the Olympic tournament. Reigning world bantamweight champion Huang Hsiao-wen (women's flyweight), 2019 world bronze medalist Lin Yu-ting (women's featherweight), Wu Shih-yi (women's lightweight), and Rio 2016 Olympian Chen Nien-chin (women's welterweight) secured the spots on the Taiwanese squad by advancing to the semifinal match of their respective weight divisions at the 2020 Asia & Oceania Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan. [9] [10]
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Huang Hsiao-wen | Women's flyweight | Bye | ![]() W 5–0 | ![]() W 5–0 | ![]() L 0–5 | Did not advance | ![]() |
Lin Yu-ting | Women's featherweight | Bye | ![]() L 2–3 | Did not advance | |||
Wu Shih-yi | Women's lightweight | ![]() W 4–1 | ![]() L 0–5 | Did not advance | |||
Chen Nien-chin | Women's welterweight | Bye | ![]() W 3–2 | ![]() L 1–4 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered one canoeist to compete in the women's K-1 class at the Games, as the International Canoe Federation accepted the nation's request to claim an unused berth from the 2020 Oceania Championships.
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Semifinal | Final | |||||||
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Run 1 | Rank | Run 2 | Rank | Best | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Chang Chu-han | Women's K-1 | 182.95 | 26 | 136.66 | 25 | 136.66 | 26 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered one rider each to compete in the men's Olympic road race, by finishing in the top two, not yet qualified, at the 2019 Asian Championships in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. [11]
Athlete | Event | Time | Rank |
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Feng Chun-kai | Men's road race | Did not finish |
Chinese Taipei entered one jumping rider into the Olympic competition by finishing in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group G (South East Asia and Oceania). [12]
Athlete | Horse | Event | Qualification | Final | |||
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Penalties | Rank | Penalties | Time | Rank | |||
Jasmine Chen | Benitus di Vallerano | Individual | 9 | =47 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered one male golfer and two female golfers into the Olympic tournament.
Athlete | Event | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round 4 | Playoff | Total | ||
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Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Score | Par | Rank | ||
Pan Cheng-tsung | Men's | 74 | 66 | 66 | 63 | 14 | 269 | −15 | ![]() |
Hsu Wei-ling | Women's | 69 | 69 | 71 | 66 | — | 275 | −9 | =15 |
Min Lee | 69 | 69 | 72 | 72 | — | 282 | −2 | =34 |
Chinese Taipei fielded a full team of five artistic gymnasts (four men and one woman) into the Olympic competition. The men's squad claimed one of the remaining nine spots in the team all-around at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany, making its first trip to the Games since 1964. On the women's side, Ting Hua-tien received a spare berth from the apparatus events, as one of the twelve highest-ranked gymnasts, neither part of the team nor qualified directly through the all-around, at the same tournament. [13] The men's team was announced on 6 June 2021. [14]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | ||||||
Hung Yuan-hsi | Team | 13.233 | 10.766 | 12.633 | 12.966 | 11.500 | 13.000 | 74.098 | 60 | Did not advance | |||||||
Lee Chih-kai | 14.200 | 15.266 Q | 13.033 | 14.500 | 14.233 | 13.000 | 84.332 | 17 Q | |||||||||
Shiao Yu-jan | 13.833 | 12.900 | 12.833 | 14.333 | 12.100 | 11.800 | 77.799 | 54 | |||||||||
Tang Chia-hung | 14.333 | 13.000 | 13.833 | 14.400 | 13.966 | 13.400 | 82.932 | 22 Q | |||||||||
Total | 42.366 | 41.166 | 39.699 | 43.233 | 40.299 | 39.500 | 246.263 | 10 |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||||||
F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | F | PH | R | V | PB | HB | ||||||
Lee Chih-kai | All-around | See team results | 14.400 | 12.666 | 12.733 | 14.400 | 13.900 | 12.600 | 80.699 | 21 | |||||||
Pommel horse | — | 15.266 | — | 15.266 | 1 Q | — | 15.400 | — | 15.400 | ![]() | |||||||
Tang Chia-hung | All-around | See team results | 14.366 | 13.333 | 14.100 | 14.433 | 13.800 | 14.766 | 84.798 | 7 |
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Final | ||||||||||
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Apparatus | Total | Rank | Apparatus | Total | Rank | ||||||||
V | UB | BB | F | V | UB | BB | F | ||||||
Ting Hua-tien | Uneven bars | — | 12.233 | — | 12.233 | 63 | Did not advance | ||||||
Balance beam | — | 12.566 | — | 12.566 | 50 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered three judoka (one men and two women) into the Olympic tournament based on the International Judo Federation Olympics Individual Ranking. [15]
Athlete | Event | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Yang Yung-wei | Men's −60 kg | Bye | ![]() W 10–00 | ![]() W 10–00 | ![]() W 10–00 | Bye | ![]() L 00–10 | ![]() |
Lin Chen-hao | Women's −48 kg | ![]() W 10–01 | ![]() W 10–01 | ![]() L 00–10 | Did not advance | ![]() L 00–10 | Did not advance | 7 |
Lien Chen-ling | Women's −57 kg | Bye | ![]() L 00–10 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered two karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. 2018 world bronze medalist Wen Tzu-yun qualified directly for the women's kumite 55-kg category by finishing among the top four karateka at the end of the combined WKF Olympic Rankings. [16]
Athlete | Event | Group stage | Semifinals | Final | ||||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Wen Tzu-yun | Women's −55 kg | ![]() L 2–5 | ![]() W 5–1 | ![]() W 5–4 | 2 Q | ![]() L 4–4 | Did not advance | ![]() |
Athlete | Event | Elimination round | Ranking round | Final / BM | |||
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Score | Rank | Score | Rank | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Wang Yi-ta | Men's kata | 24.97 | 5 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games by winning the bronze medal and securing the first of five berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.
Athlete | Event | Heats | Repechage | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final | |||||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Huang Yi-ting | Women's single sculls | 8:04.59 | 4 R | 8:11.56 | 2 QF | 8:34.51 | 6 SC/D | 7:56.00 | 5 FD | 7:52.18 | 20 |
Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage
Taiwanese shooters achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2018 ISSF World Championships, the 2019 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by 31 May 2020. [17]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank | ||
Lu Shao-chuan | Men's 10 m air rifle | 626.3 | 17 | — | Did not advance | ||
Yang Kun-pi | Men's trap | 121 | 14 | Did not advance | |||
Lin Ying-shin | Women's 10 m air rifle | 623.4 | 26 | Did not advance | |||
Tien Chia-chen | Women's 10 m air pistol | 559 | 42 | Did not advance | |||
Women's 25 m pistol | 584 | 5 Q | 10 | 8 | |||
Wu Chia-ying | Women's 10 m air pistol | 573 | 14 | Did not advance | |||
Women's 25 m pistol | 584 | 7 Q | 23 | 5 | |||
Lin Ying-shin Lu Shao-chuan | 10 m air rifle team | 625.4 | 14 | Did not advance |
Taiwanese swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): [18] [19]
Athlete | Event | Heat | Semifinal | Final | |||
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Time | Rank | Time | Rank | Time | Rank | ||
Wang Hsing-hao | Men's 200 m individual medley | 2:00.72 | 37 | Did not advance | |||
Men's 400 m individual medley | 4:19.06 | 25 | — | Did not advance | |||
Wang Kuan-hung | Men's 100 m butterfly | 52.44 | =35 | Did not advance | |||
Men's 200 m butterfly | 1:54.44 | 2 Q | 1:55.52 | 13 | Did not advance | ||
Huang Mei-chien | Women's 50 m freestyle | 25.99 | 38 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei entered six athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. The men's and women's teams secured their respective berths by advancing to the quarterfinal round of the 2020 World Olympic Qualification Event in Gondomar, Portugal, permitting a maximum of two starters to compete each in the men's and women's singles tournament. [20] Moreover, an additional berth was awarded to the Taiwanese table tennis players competing in the inaugural mixed doubles by advancing to the semifinal stage of the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Zhengzhou, China. [21]
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Chuang Chih-yuan | Singles | Bye | ![]() W 4–3 | ![]() W 4–1 | ![]() L 3–4 | Did not advance | ||||
Lin Yun-ju | Bye | ![]() W 4–1 | ![]() W 4–2 | ![]() W 4–0 | ![]() L 3–4 | ![]() L 3–4 | 4 | |||
Chen Chien-an Chuang Chih-yuan Lin Yun-ju | Team | — | ![]() W 3–0 | ![]() L 2–3 | Did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Preliminary | Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Chen Szu-yu | Singles | Bye | ![]() W 4–0 | ![]() L 0–4 | Did not advance | |||||
Cheng I-ching | Bye | ![]() L 0–4 | Did not advance | |||||||
Chen Szu-yu Cheng Hsien-tzu Cheng I-ching | Team | — | ![]() W 3–0 | ![]() L 0–3 | Did not advance |
Athlete | Event | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | ||
Lin Yun-ju Cheng I-ching | Doubles | ![]() Batra (IND) W 4–0 | ![]() Jeon J-h (KOR) W 4–2 | ![]() Ito (JPN) L 1–4 | ![]() Yuan (FRA) W 4–0 | ![]() |
Chinese Taipei entered four athletes into the taekwondo competition at the Games. Huang Yu-jen (men's 68 kg), Rio 2016 Olympian and 2015 world champion Liu Wei-ting (men's 80 kg), reigning Asian Games gold medalist Su Po-ya (women's 49 kg), and Lo Chia-ling (women's 57 kg) secured the spots on the Taiwanese taekwondo squad with a top two finish each in their respective weight classes at the 2021 Asian Qualification Tournament in Amman, Jordan. [22]
Athlete | Event | Qualification | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Repechage 1 | Repechage 2 | Final / BM | ||
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Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Opposition Result | Rank | |||
Huang Yu-jen | Men's −68 kg | Bye | ![]() L 15–18 | Did not advance | ||||||
Liu Wei-ting | Men's −80 kg | — | ![]() L 11–15 | Did not advance | — | Did not advance | ||||
Su Po-ya | Women's −49 kg | Bye | ![]() L 9–10 | Did not advance | ||||||
Lo Chia-ling | Women's −57 kg | Bye | ![]() W 20–18 | ![]() W 18–9 | ![]() L 5–28 | Bye | ![]() W 10–6 | ![]() |
Athlete | Event | Round of 64 | Round of 32 | Round of 16 | Quarterfinals | Semifinals | Final / BM | |
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Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Opposition Score | Rank | ||
Lu Yen-hsun | Men's singles | ![]() L 1–6, 3–6 | Did not advance | |||||
Chan Hao-ching Latisha Chan | Women's doubles | — | ![]() Olaru (ROU) L 5–7, 6–1, [6–10] | Did not advance | ||||
Hsieh Yu-chieh Hsu Chieh-yu | — | ![]() Siniaková (CZE) L 2–6, 1–6 | Did not advance |
Chinese Taipei weightlifters qualified for 7 quota places at the games, based on the Tokyo 2020 Rankings Qualification List of 20 June 2021. [23] [24]
Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
Kao Chan-hung | −61 kg | 125 | 9 | — | 125 | DNF | |
Chen Po-jen | −96 kg | 176 | 5 | 205 | 6 | 381 | 5 |
Hsieh Yun-ting | +109 kg | 172 | 13 | 206 | 10 | 378 | 12 |
Athlete | Event | Snatch | Clean & jerk | Total | Rank | ||
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Result | Rank | Result | Rank | ||||
Fang Wan-ling | −49 kg | 80 | 8 | 101 | 4 | 181 | 4 |
Chiang Nien-hsin | −55 kg | 81 | 12 | 95 | 13 | 176 | 13 |
Kuo Hsing-chun | −59 kg | 103 OR | 1 | 133 OR | 1 | 236 OR | ![]() |
Chen Wen-huei | −64 kg | 103 | 4 | 127 | 3 | 230 | ![]() |
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Thailand competed at the 2020 Summer Paralympics from 24 August to 5 September 2021. This was the country's tenth appearance at the Paralympic Games.
Tunisia competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo. Originally scheduled to take place from 24 July to 9 August 2020, the Games were postponed to 23 July to 8 August 2021, due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the nation's official debut in 1960, Tunisian athletes have appeared in every edition of the Summer Olympic Games, except the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow because of the nation's partial support for the US-led boycott.
Chinese Taipei is scheduled to compete at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris from 26 July to 11 August 2024. "Chinese Taipei" is the name designated for use by Taiwan when participating in certain international organizations and almost all sporting events, including the Olympic Games. Neither the common name "Taiwan" nor the official name "Republic of China" may be used officially, due to opposition from the People's Republic of China. It will also be the nation's eleventh consecutive appearance at the Summer Olympics.