Chinese Taipei at the Olympics

Chinese Taipei at the Olympic Games
Chinese Taipei Olympic flag IOC code  TPE NOC Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee Website www.tpenoc.net (Chinese) (English)
Olympic history
Summer Games
1956* 1960* 1964** 1968** 1972* 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016
Winter Games
1972* 1976* 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 * As the Republic of China ** As Taiwan
Other related appearances
Republic of China (1932–48)

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC) currently competes as "Chinese Taipei" at the Olympic Games. The original ROC first participated at the Summer Olympic Games in 1932 as "China". After the Chinese Civil War the ROC retreated to the island of Taiwan and only Taiwan-based athletes have competed in its team since then. The ROC boycotted the Olympics starting from the 1976 Summer Games until it returned to the 1984 Winter Games, and started participating as Chinese Taipei.

Due to pressure from the PRC, since 1984, Taiwanese athletes have competed 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 (as the Republic of China) in 1960, and their first gold medals in 2004.

Medal tables

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1932–1948 as part of the  Republic of China (ROC) 1956 Melbourne 13 0 0 0 0 – 1960 Rome 27 0 1 0 1 32 1964 Tokyo 40 0 0 0 0 – 1968 Mexico City 43 0 0 1 1 42 1972 Munich 21 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Montreal did not participate 1980 Moscow 1984 Los Angeles 38 0 0 1 1 43 1988 Seoul 61 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Barcelona 37 0 1 0 1 49 1996 Atlanta 74 0 1 0 1 61 2000 Sydney 74 0 1 4 5 58 2004 Athens 89 2 2 1 5 31 2008 Beijing 80 0 0 4 4 79 2012 London 44 0 1 1 2 63 Total 2 7 12 21 76

Medals by Winter Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1972 Sapporo 5 0 0 0 0 – 1976 Innsbruck 6 0 0 0 0 – 1980 Lake Placid did not participate 1984 Sarajevo 12 0 0 0 0 – 1988 Calgary 13 0 0 0 0 – 1992 Albertville 8 0 0 0 0 – 1994 Lillehammer 2 0 0 0 0 – 1998 Nagano 7 0 0 0 0 – 2002 Salt Lake City 6 0 0 0 0 – 2006 Turin 1 0 0 0 0 – 2010 Vancouver 1 0 0 0 0 – 2014 Sochi 3 0 0 0 0 – Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by sport

Sport	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total
Taekwondo	2	1	5	8
Weightlifting	0	2	4	6
Archery	0	1	1	2
Athletics	0	1	1	2
Table tennis	0	1	1	2
Baseball	0	1	0	1
Total	2	7	12	21

List of medalists

Medal	Name	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 featherweight
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 flyweight
Bronze	Huang Chih-hsiung	2000 Sydney	Taekwondo	Men's flyweight
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
Bronze	Chu Mu-yen	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Bronze	Sung Yu-chi	2008 Beijing	Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg
Bronze	Chen Wei-ling	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting	Women's 48 kg
Bronze	Lu Ying-chi	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting	Women's 63 kg
Silver	Hsu Shu-ching	2012 London	Weightlifting	Women's 53 kg
Bronze	Tseng Li-cheng	2012 London	Taekwondo	Women's 57 kg

Timeline concerning Olympic recognition

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

• 1910: The "Chinese National Olympic Committee" is created.
• 1932: ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China
• 1951: The Chinese National Olympic Committee moves from Nanking to Taipei;^[1]
• 1952: ROC team briefly withdraws from the Olympics^[2] because its delegation was listed as China (Formosa);
• 1954: IOC adopted a resolution officially recognising the People's Republic of China (PRC) “Chinese Olympics Committee”. The PRC is invited to take part in the 1956 Olympics. The PRC organises a delegation;^[1][3]
• 1956: ROC represented at Melbourne Games as the Republic of China. PRC withdrew from the Games in protest because in the list of IOC members two Chinese National Olympic Committees were listed;^[1][3]
• 1958: PRC withdrew from Olympic movement and from the federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Tung Hou Yi, an IOC member for the PRC resigned;^[1]
• 1959: ROC informed that as it did not control sport on Mainland China, it could not continue to be recognized as the "Chinese National Olympic Committee". All applications under a different name would be considered;^[1]
• 1960: ROC committee renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognized.;^[1]
• 1963: Agreed by the IOC that during an Olympic Games the delegation from Taiwan should be known as Taiwan but would be allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits;^[1]
• 1968: IOC agreed to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner;^[1]
• 1976: ROC is not permitted to participate in the Montreal Games as long as it insists on the name "Republic of China," because the host country, Canada, recognized the PRC as the sole legitimate government of "China".
• 1979: IOC recognises the PRC Olympics committee as representing China for the first time since Communist rule began in 1949. The IOC decision followed a postal ballot among 89 members. Under the IOC decision, the ROC’s Olympics committee would be: renamed the “Chinese Taipei Olympics Committee”; recognised only as a provincial body; and would no longer be allowed to use the ROC's national anthem or flag at the Olympic Games.^[1][3]
• 1980: Chinese Taipei boycotts the Moscow Games due to the decision it must use the name Chinese Taipei in international sporting events.
• 1984: Chinese Taipei competes for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Winter Games.
• ROC athletes have won a total of 19 medals at the Summer Games, with taekwondo as the top medal-producing sport. The ROC has never won a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.

See also

• Category:Olympic competitors for Taiwan
• Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
• Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
• Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games

References

1. The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976
2. Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 PDF (30.6 MB) p. 32, Sulo Kolkka (ed.), Alex Matson (trans.), The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, 1952
3. Chinese Olympics Committee website

External links

• "Chinese Taipei". International Olympic Committee.
• "Results and Medalists". Olympic.org. International Olympic Committee.
• "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee.
• "Chinese Taipei". Sports-Reference.com.