Chinese Taipei at the Olympics

"Taiwan at the Olympics" redirects here. For the team representing the Republic of China in the Olympics from 1924 to 1948, see Republic of China at the Olympics. For the team representing the People's Republic of China, see China at the Olympics. For other uses, see Chinese Olympics.

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

Chinese Taipei at the Olympics
Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
IOC code	TPE
NOC	Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
Website	www.tpenoc.net (in Chinese and English)
Medals Ranked 63rd	Gold 9 Silver 11 Bronze 23 Total 43
Summer appearances
1956 1960 1964 1968 1972 1976–1980 1984 1988 1992 1996 2000 2004 2008 2012 2016 2020 2024
Winter appearances
1972 1976 1980 1984 1988 1992 1994 1998 2002 2006 2010 2014 2018 2022
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.

Participation

Timeline of participation

Olympic year/s	team
	Mainland China			Taiwan
1924			(Chine)[1][2]	as part of Japan[lower-alpha 1]
1932–1936		China	(CHN)
1948
1952		People's Republic of China (PRC)
1956					Republic of China (CHN)
1960					Formosa (RCF)
1964–1968					Taiwan (TWN)
1972–1976					Republic of China (ROC)
1980		China (CHN)
since 1984					Chinese Taipei (TPE)

Timeline concerning Olympic recognition

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.^[3]
• 1932 – ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China.^[4]
• 1949 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation moves to Taiwan.^[5]
• 1952 – ROC team withdraws from the Helsinki Olympics^[6] because the IOC permits the People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate.^[5]
• 1954 – IOC adopts a resolution officially recognising the PRC's Chinese Olympic Committee.^[7][8]
• 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.^[7][8]
• 1958 – PRC withdraws from Olympic movement and all federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Dong Shouyi, an IOC member for the PRC resigns.^[7][9]
• 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.^[9]
• 1960 – ROC committee is renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognised.^[7]
• 1963 – IOC recognizes the name "Taiwan", and the NOC is allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits.^[7]
• 1968 – IOC agrees to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner.^[7]
• 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.^[10][11]
• 1979 – IOC recognises the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official representative of China.^[9] The IOC decision is followed by a postal ballot among 89 members.^[12] 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.^[13]
• 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).^[14] 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.

Medals

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table

Medals by Summer Games Games Athletes Gold Silver Bronze Total Rank 1924 Paris as part of Japan[lower-alpha 2] 1932 Los Angeles 1936 Berlin 1948 London as part of the Republic of China[15] 1952 Helsinki did not participate 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 boycotted 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 1 1 2 4 45 2012 London 44 1 0 1 2 49 2016 Rio de Janeiro 58 1 0 2 3 50 2020 Tokyo 68 2 4 6 12 34 2024 Paris 60 2 0 5 7 35 2028 Los Angeles 2032 Brisbane Total 9 11 23 43 63

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 boycotted 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 – 2018 Pyeongchang 4 0 0 0 0 – 2022 Beijing 4 0 0 0 0 – 2026 Milano Cortina future event Total 0 0 0 0 –

Medals by summer sport Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total  Weightlifting 4 2 5 11  Taekwondo 2 1 6 9  Badminton 2 1 0 3  Boxing 1 0 3 4  Archery 0 2 2 4  Table tennis 0 1 2 3  Athletics 0 1 1 2  Gymnastics 0 1 1 2  Baseball 0 1 0 1  Judo 0 1 0 1  Golf 0 0 1 1  Karate 0 0 1 1  Shooting 0 0 1 1 Totals (13 entries) 9 11 23 43

List of medalists

Medal	Players/Players in the team	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 60 kg
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		Table tennis	Women's singles
Bronze	Chi Shu-ju		Taekwondo	Women's 49 kg
Bronze	Huang Chih-hsiung		Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Bronze	Kuo Yi-hang		Weightlifting	Women's 75 kg
Gold	Chen Shih-hsin	2004 Athens	Taekwondo	Women's flyweight
Gold	Chu Mu-yen		Taekwondo	Men's flyweight
Silver	Chen Szu-yuan Liu Ming-huang Wang Cheng-pang		Archery	Men's team
Silver	Huang Chih-hsiung		Taekwondo	Men's lightweight
Bronze	Chen Li-ju Wu Hui-ju Yuan Shu-chi		Archery	Women's team
Gold	Chen Wei-ling	2008 Beijing	Weightlifting	Women's 48 kg
Silver	Lu Ying-chi		Weightlifting	Women's 63 kg
Bronze	Chu Mu-yen		Taekwondo	Men's 58 kg
Bronze	Sung Yu-chi		Taekwondo	Men's 68 kg
Gold	Hsu Shu-ching	2012 London	Weightlifting	Women's 53 kg
Bronze	Tseng Li-cheng		Taekwondo	Women's 57 kg
Gold	Hsu Shu-ching	2016 Rio de Janeiro	Weightlifting	Women's 53 kg
Bronze	Lei Chien-ying Lin Shih-chia Tan Ya-ting		Archery	Women's team
Bronze	Kuo Hsing-chun		Weightlifting	Women's 58 kg
Gold	Kuo Hsing-chun	2020 Tokyo	Weightlifting	Women's 59 kg
Gold	Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin		Badminton	Men's doubles
Silver	Yang Yung-wei		Judo	Men's 60 kg
Silver	Deng Yu-cheng Tang Chih-chun Wei Chun-heng		Archery	Men's team
Silver	Lee Chih-kai		Gymnastics	Men's pommel horse
Silver	Tai Tzu-ying		Badminton	Women's singles
Bronze	Lo Chia-ling		Taekwondo	Women's 57 kg
Bronze	Lin Yun-ju Cheng I-ching		Table tennis	Mixed doubles
Bronze	Chen Wen-huei		Weightlifting	Women's 64 kg
Bronze	Pan Cheng-tsung		Golf	Men's individual
Bronze	Huang Hsiao-wen		Boxing	Women's flyweight
Bronze	Wen Tzu-yun		Karate	Women's 55 kg
Gold	Lee Yang Wang Chi-lin	2024 Paris	Badminton	Men's doubles
Gold	Lin Yu-ting		Boxing	Women's 57 kg
Bronze	Lee Meng-yuan		Shooting	Men's skeet
Bronze	Wu Shih-yi		Boxing	Women's 60 kg
Bronze	Tang Chia-hung		Gymnastics	Men's horizontal bar
Bronze	Chen Nien-chin		Boxing	Women's 66 kg
Bronze	Kuo Hsing-chun		Weightlifting	Women's 59 kg

See also

• List of flag bearers for Chinese Taipei at the Olympics
• Category:Olympic competitors for Taiwan
• Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
• Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
• Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games
• Republic of China at the Olympics
• Chinese Taipei at the Paralympics

Notes

1. except Kinmen and Matsu Islands, which have been controlled by China during all Olympics; Taiwan was reclaimed by China in 1945 following her victory against Japan.
2. except Kinmen and Matsu Islands, which have been controlled by China during all Olympics; Taiwan was reclaimed by China in 1945 following her victory against Japan.

References

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External links

• "Chinese Taipei". International Olympic Committee. 27 July 2021.
• "Chinese Taipei". Olympedia.com.
• "Olympic Analytics/TPE". olympanalyt.com.