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Chinese Taipei at the Olympics

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Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), competes as "Chinese Taipei" (TPE) at the Olympic Games since 1984. Athletes compete under the flag of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee 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.

Chinese Taipei at the
Olympics
Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
IOC codeTPE
NOCChinese Taipei Olympic Committee
Websitewww.tpenoc.net (in Chinese and English)
Medals
Ranked 63rd
Gold
9
Silver
11
Bronze
23
Total
43
Summer appearances
Winter appearances
Other related appearances
 Republic of China (1924–1948)

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

Timeline of participation

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Olympic Year/sTeams
Mainland ChinaTaiwan
1924(Chine)[1][2]as part of Japan Japan[a]
1932–1936China(CHN)
1948
1952People's Republic
of China (PRC)
1956Formosa-China (CHN)
1960Formosa (RCF)
1964–1968Taiwan (TWN)
1972–1976 WRepublic of China (ROC)
1980 WPeople's Republic
of China (CHN)[3]
1984–presentChinese Taipei (TPE)

Timeline concerning Olympic recognition

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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.[4]
  • 1932 – ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China.[5]
  • 1949 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation moves to Taiwan.[6]
  • 1952 – ROC team withdraws from the Helsinki Olympics[7] because the IOC permits the People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate.[6]
  • 1954 – IOC adopts a resolution officially recognising the PRC's Chinese Olympic Committee.[8][9]
  • 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.[8][9]
  • 1958 – PRC withdraws from Olympic movement and all federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Dong Shouyi, an IOC member for the PRC resigns.[8][10]
  • 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.[10]
  • 1960 – ROC committee is renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognised.[8]
  • 1963 – IOC recognizes the name "Taiwan", and the NOC is allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits.[8]
  • 1968 – IOC agrees to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner.[8]
  • 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.[11][12]
  • 1979 – IOC recognises the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official representative of China.[10] The IOC decision is followed by a postal ballot among 89 members.[13] Under the IOC decision, the ROC's Olympics committee would be 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.[14]
  • 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).[15] 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.

Medal tables

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List of medalists

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Medal Players/Players in the team Games Sport Event
 SilverYang Chuan-kwang1960 Rome AthleticsMen's decathlon
 BronzeChi Cheng1968 Mexico City AthleticsWomen's 80 metre hurdles
 BronzeTsai Wen-yee1984 Los Angeles WeightliftingMen's 60 kg
 SilverChang 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 BaseballMen's competition
 SilverChen Jing1996 Atlanta Table tennisWomen's singles
 SilverLi Feng-ying2000 Sydney WeightliftingWomen's 53 kg
 BronzeChen Jing Table tennisWomen's singles
 BronzeChi Shu-ju TaekwondoWomen's 49 kg
 BronzeHuang Chih-hsiung TaekwondoMen's 58 kg
 BronzeKuo Yi-hang WeightliftingWomen's 75 kg
 GoldChen Shih-hsin2004 Athens TaekwondoWomen's flyweight
 GoldChu Mu-yen TaekwondoMen's flyweight
 SilverChen Szu-yuan
Liu Ming-huang
Wang Cheng-pang		 ArcheryMen's team
 SilverHuang Chih-hsiung TaekwondoMen's lightweight
 BronzeChen Li-ju
Wu Hui-ju
Yuan Shu-chi		 ArcheryWomen's team
 GoldChen Wei-ling2008 Beijing WeightliftingWomen's 48 kg
 SilverLu Ying-chi WeightliftingWomen's 63 kg
 BronzeChu Mu-yen TaekwondoMen's 58 kg
 BronzeSung Yu-chi TaekwondoMen's 68 kg
 GoldHsu Shu-ching2012 London WeightliftingWomen's 53 kg
 BronzeTseng Li-cheng TaekwondoWomen's 57 kg
 GoldHsu Shu-ching2016 Rio de Janeiro WeightliftingWomen's 53 kg
 BronzeLei Chien-ying
Lin Shih-chia
Tan Ya-ting		 ArcheryWomen's team
 BronzeKuo Hsing-chun WeightliftingWomen's 58 kg
 GoldKuo Hsing-chun2020 Tokyo WeightliftingWomen's 59 kg
 GoldLee Yang
Wang Chi-lin		 BadmintonMen's doubles
 SilverYang Yung-wei JudoMen's 60 kg
 SilverDeng Yu-cheng
Tang Chih-chun
Wei Chun-heng		 ArcheryMen's team
 SilverLee Chih-kai
 GymnasticsMen's pommel horse
 SilverTai Tzu-ying BadmintonWomen's singles
 BronzeLo Chia-ling TaekwondoWomen's 57 kg
 BronzeLin Yun-ju
Cheng I-ching		 Table tennisMixed doubles
 BronzeChen Wen-huei WeightliftingWomen's 64 kg
 BronzePan Cheng-tsung GolfMen's individual
 BronzeHuang Hsiao-wen BoxingWomen's flyweight
 BronzeWen Tzu-yun KarateWomen's 55 kg
 GoldLee Yang
Wang Chi-lin		2024 Paris BadmintonMen's doubles
 GoldLin Yu-ting BoxingWomen's 57 kg
 BronzeLee Meng-yuan ShootingMen's skeet
 BronzeWu Shih-yi BoxingWomen's 60 kg
 BronzeTang Chia-hung GymnasticsMen's horizontal bar
 BronzeChen Nien-chin BoxingWomen's 66 kg
 BronzeKuo Hsing-chun WeightliftingWomen's 59 kg

See also

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Notes

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  1. 1 2 Kinmen and Matsu have been part of the Republic of China for all Olympics.

References

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  1. ↑ China took part in the Opening Ceremony, but its four athletes (all tennis players) withdrew from competition.
  2. ↑ M. Avé (ed.). Les Jeux de la VIIIe Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel (PDF) (in French). Paris: Librairie de France. Archived from the original (PDF) on 5 May 2011. Retrieved 16 October 2012. 39 seulement s'alignérent, ne représentant plus que 24 nations, la Chine, le Portugal et la Yougoslavie ayant déclaré forfait.
  3. ↑ "People's Republic of China". www.olympics.com. Archived from the original on 2025-01-29. Retrieved 2026-02-03.
  4. ↑ "奧會簡介" [Introduction to the Olympic Committee]. Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 30 April 2023. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  5. ↑ "X Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 Official Report" (PDF). LA84 Foundation. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 July 2010. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  6. 1 2 Chan, Gerald (Autumn 1985). "The "Two-Chinas" Problem and the Olympic Formula". Pacific Affairs. 58 (3): 473–490. doi:10.2307/2759241. JSTOR 2759241. Archived from the original on 4 February 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  7. ↑ Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, "The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 11 April 2008. (30.6 MB) p. 32, Sulo Kolkka (ed.), Alex Matson (trans.), The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, 1952
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976
  9. 1 2 "10th–15th Olympic Summer Games: 1936–1952". Chinese Olympics Committee. 30 March 2004. Archived from the original on 2016-09-19. Retrieved 2008-11-29.
  10. 1 2 3 Brownell, Susan (March 2005). "Globalization is not a Dinner Party: He Zhenliang and China's 30-Year Struggle for Recognition by the International Olympic Committee". Globalization and Sport in Historical Context. University of California, San Diego: LA84 Foundation. Archived from the original on 2022-07-09. Retrieved 2022-07-09.
  11. ↑ Pound, Richard W. (2012). "Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. 20 (1): 11–32. Archived (PDF) from the original on 18 November 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  12. ↑ Pound, Richard W. (2012). "Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Part 2" (PDF). Journal of Olympic History. 20 (2): 34–51. Archived (PDF) from the original on 16 August 2024. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  13. ↑ "China and the Five Rings". Olympic Review. 145: 626. November 1979. Archived from the original on 6 February 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  14. ↑ Eaton, Joseph (November 2016). "Reconsidering the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: American Sports Diplomacy in East Asian Perspective". Diplomatic History. 40 (5): 845–864. doi:10.1093/dh/dhw026. JSTOR 26376807. Archived from the original on 23 October 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  15. ↑ "1981 Agreement with IOC" (PDF). Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee. 23 March 1981. Archived from the original on 12 September 2021. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
  16. ↑ "Chen Yinglang". Olympedia. Archived from the original on 8 July 2022. Retrieved 9 July 2022.
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