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| Born | 20 December 1954 Taitung County, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Hsu Tung-hsiung | |
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| Traditional Chinese | 許東雄 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xǔ Dōngxióng |
Hsu Tung-hsiung (born 20 December 1954) is a Taiwanese sports official and former swimmer. He won bronze medals in four events at the 1970 Asian Games,and competed in four events at the 1972 Summer Olympics. [1] [2]
Hsu was born in Taitung,and moved to Kaohsiung at the age of 12. [3] Nicknamed "the iron man of swimming",as late as the 1980s he held thirteen national records in swimming. [2] He later became the Dean of Student Affairs at Taipei Physical Education College,and in 2006 began pursuing PhD at Soochow University in mainland China. [4] He was elected president of the Chinese Taipei Swimming Association in May 2011. [5] He is the father of Hsu Chi-chieh,who also became an Olympic swimmer for Taiwan. [6]
