Wang Chi-lin

In this Chinese name, the family name is Wang.

Wang Chi-lin (Chinese: 王齊麟; pinyin: Wáng Qílín; born 18 January 1995) is a Taiwanese badminton player who specializes in doubles.^[1] He is the 2020 and 2024 Olympics men's doubles champion, becoming the first unseeded men's doubles pair in Olympics history to win consecutive gold medals.^[2] He also won the men's doubles bronze medals at the 2018 World Championships, 2022 Asian Games, and at the 2023 Asian Championships. He reached a career high as World number 2 in September 2022 with his former partner Lee Yang.^[3] Wang also competed in the mixed doubles, winning the gold medal at the 2017 Summer Universiade with Lee Chia-hsin,^[4] with their career high were number 10 in the BWF World Rankings in June 2018.

Wang Chi-lin 王齊麟
Wang in 2024
Personal information
Country	Republic of China (Taiwan)
Born	(1995-01-18) 18 January 1995 (age 30) Taipei, Taiwan
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Years active	2009–present
Handedness	Right
Men's & mixed doubles
Highest ranking	2 (MD with Lee Yang, 27 September 2022) 4 (MD with Chen Hung-ling, 25 October 2018) 10 (XD with Lee Chia-hsin, 21 June 2018)
Current ranking	20 (MD with Chiu Hsiang-chieh, 4 March 2025)
Medal record Men's badminton Representing  Chinese Taipei Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Men's doubles 2024 Paris Men's doubles World Championships 2018 Nanjing Men's doubles Thomas Cup 2024 Chengdu Men's team Asian Games 2018 Jakarta–Palembang Men's team 2022 Hangzhou Men's doubles Asian Championships 2023 Dubai Men's doubles Summer Universiade 2017 Taipei Mixed doubles 2017 Taipei Mixed team World Junior Championships 2011 Taipei Boys' doubles 2011 Taipei Mixed team 2013 Bangkok Boys' doubles Asian Junior Championships 2012 Gimcheon Boys' doubles
BWF profile

Career

Wang Chi Lin (right) pictured with Lee Yang (left) during the 2024 Paris Olympics.

In 2018, Wang won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships with Chen Hung-ling.^[5] He then represented Chinese Taipei in the 2018 Asian Games, helping the team won the men's team bronze medal.

Since his partner Chen Hung-ling decided to retire from the international competition,^[6] Wang then made a new partnership with Lee Yang.^[7] Wang and Lee were classmates in junior high school. The duo reached six finals in the 2019 BWF World Tour, managing to win the Spain Masters, Orléans Masters, India Open, and Korea Masters. He also finished as the mixed doubles finalist in the Spain Masters with new partner Cheng Chi-ya.^[8]

In 2021, at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, he and his partner Lee Yang defeated the 2018 World Champions' Li Junhui and Liu Yuchen in the men's doubles final. They became the first unseeded pair to win a gold medal in the Olympics' men's doubles badminton. This was Chinese Taipei's first Olympic medal in badminton.^[9] In 2022, Wang and Lee were named two of Taiwan's Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Taiwan.^[10]

In 2024, at the 2024 Paris Olympics, he and his partner Lee Yang repeated the feat to win in the men's doubles finals as an unseeded pair,^[11] making history as the first men’s doubles pair to successfully defend their Olympic title.^[2]

Achievements

Olympic Games

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2020	Musashino Forest Sport Plaza, Tokyo, Japan	Lee Yang	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	21–18, 21–12	Gold
2024	Porte de La Chapelle Arena, Paris, France	Lee Yang	Liang Weikeng Wang Chang	21–17, 18–21, 21–19	Gold

World Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	Nanjing Youth Olympic Sports Park, Nanjing, China	Chen Hung-ling	Takeshi Kamura Keigo Sonoda	17–21, 10–21	Bronze

Asian Games

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2022	Binjiang Gymnasium, Hangzhou, China	Lee Yang	Choi Sol-gyu Kim Won-ho	12–21, 10–21	Bronze

Summer Universiade

Mixed doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Taipei Gymnasium, Taipei, Taiwan	Lee Chia-hsin	Nur Mohd Azriyn Ayub Goh Yea Ching	12–21, 21–16, 21–14	Gold

Asian Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2023	Sheikh Rashid Bin Hamdan Indoor Hall, Dubai, United Arab Emirates	Lee Yang	Satwiksairaj Rankireddy Chirag Shetty	18–21, 14–13 retired	Bronze

World University Championships

Men's doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2014	Municipal Sport Palace Vista Alegre, Córdoba, Spain	Tseng Min-hao	Mohamad Arif Abdul Latif Iskandar Zulkarnain Zainuddin	21–8, 8–21, 16–21	Bronze

World Junior Championships

Boys' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2011	Taoyuan Arena, Taoyuan City, Taipei, Taiwan	Tien Tzu-chieh	Nelson Heg Teo Ee Yi	8–21, 17–21	Bronze
2013	Hua Mark Indoor Stadium, Bangkok, Thailand	Tien Tzu-chieh	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	10–21, 17–21	Bronze

Asian Junior Championships

Boys' doubles

Year	Venue	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2012	Gimcheon Indoor Stadium, Gimcheon, South Korea	Wu Hsiao-lin	Arya Maulana Aldiartama Edi Subaktiar	21–17, 20–22, 10–21	Silver

BWF World Tour (11 titles, 9 runners-up)

The BWF World Tour, which was announced on 19 March 2017 and implemented in 2018,^[12] is a series of elite badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF). The BWF World Tour is divided into levels of World Tour Finals, Super 1000, Super 750, Super 500, Super 300, and the BWF Tour Super 100.^[13]

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	New Zealand Open	Super 300	Chen Hung-ling	Berry Angriawan Hardianto	21–17, 21–17	Winner
2018	Chinese Taipei Open	Super 300	Chen Hung-ling	Liao Min-chun Su Ching-heng	22–20, 21–9	Winner
2018	Korea Masters	Super 300	Po Li-wei	Choi Sol-gyu Seo Seung-jae	12–21, 21–17, 18–21	Runner-up
2019	Spain Masters	Super 300	Lee Yang	Kim Won-ho Seo Seung-jae	21–8, 23–21	Winner
2019	Swiss Open	Super 300	Lee Yang	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	19–21, 16–21	Runner-up
2019	Orléans Masters	Super 100	Lee Yang	Akira Koga Taichi Saito	16–21, 22–20, 21–15	Winner
2019	India Open	Super 500	Lee Yang	Angga Pratama Ricky Karanda Suwardi	21–14, 21–14	Winner
2019	U.S. Open	Super 300	Lee Yang	Ko Sung-hyun Shin Baek-cheol	13–21, 21–17, 3–6 retired	Runner-up
2019	Korea Masters	Super 300	Lee Yang	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	21–19, 20–22, 21–19	Winner
2020	Spain Masters	Super 300	Lee Yang	Kim Astrup Anders Skaarup Rasmussen	17–21, 19–21	Runner-up
2020 (I)	Thailand Open	Super 1000	Lee Yang	Goh V Shem Tan Wee Kiong	21–16, 21–23, 21–19	Winner
2020 (II)	Thailand Open	Super 1000	Lee Yang	Aaron Chia Soh Wooi Yik	21–13, 21–18	Winner
2020	BWF World Tour Finals	World Tour Finals	Lee Yang	Mohammad Ahsan Hendra Setiawan	21–17, 23–21	Winner
2022	Taipei Open	Super 300	Lee Yang	Man Wei Chong Tee Kai Wun	18–21, 21–10, 18–21	Runner-up
2023	Japan Open	Super 750	Lee Yang	Takuro Hoki Yugo Kobayashi	21–19, 21–13	Winner
2023	Hylo Open	Super 300	Lee Yang	Liu Yuchen Ou Xuanyi	22–24, 13–21	Runner-up
2023	Korea Masters	Super 300	Lee Yang	Lee Jhe-huei Yang Po-hsuan	17–21, 19–21	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Level	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2018	New Zealand Open	Super 300	Lee Chia-hsin	Seo Seung-jae Chae Yoo-jung	21–19, 14–21, 21–19	Winner
2019	Spain Masters	Super 300	Cheng Chi-ya	Seo Seung-jae Chae Yoo-jung	18–21, 15–21	Runner-up
2019	Macau Open	Super 300	Cheng Chi-ya	Dechapol Puavaranukroh Sapsiree Taerattanachai	11–21, 8–21	Runner-up

BWF Grand Prix (3 titles, 4 runners-up)

The BWF Grand Prix had two levels, the Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. It was a series of badminton tournaments sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017.

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2015	Malaysia Masters	Chen Hung-ling	Kenta Kazuno Kazushi Yamada	19–21, 21–14, 17–21	Runner-up
2016	Chinese Taipei Open	Chen Hung-ling	Li Junhui Liu Yuchen	17–21, 21–17, 22–24	Runner-up
2016	Chinese Taipei Masters	Chen Hung-ling	Fajar Alfian Muhammad Rian Ardianto	6–11, 6–11, 13–11, 11–9, 10–12	Runner-up
2017	China Masters	Chen Hung-ling	Takuto Inoue Yuki Kaneko	21–14, 21–6	Winner
2017	Chinese Taipei Open	Chen Hung-ling	Lee Jhe-huei Lee Yang	21–16, 22–20	Winner
2017	New Zealand Open	Chen Hung-ling	Ong Yew Sin Teo Ee Yi	21–16, 21–18	Winner

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2017	Chinese Taipei Open	Lee Chia-hsin	Seo Seung-jae Kim Ha-na	20–22, 10–21	Runner-up

  BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament

  BWF Grand Prix tournament

BWF International Challenge/Series (4 titles, 4 runners-up)

Men's doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Maldives International	Tien Tzu-chieh	Arya Maulana Aldiartama Alfian Eko Prasetya	21–15, 21–17	Winner
2013	Singapore International	Chen Chung-jen	Jagdish Singh Roni Tan Wee Long	21–12, 25–27, 21–16	Winner
2013	Polish International	Chen Chung-jen	Christopher Rusdianto Trikusuma Wardhana	22–24, 21–14, 21–14	Winner
2013	Czech International	Chen Chung-jen	Adam Cwalina Przemysław Wacha	22–20, 20–22, 12–21	Runner-up
2013	India International	Tien Tzu-chieh	Manu Attri B. Sumeeth Reddy	16–21, 13–21	Runner-up

Mixed doubles

Year	Tournament	Partner	Opponent	Score	Result
2013	Singapore International	Chen Szu-yu	Vasin Nilyoke Chayanit Chaladchalam	14–21, 13–21	Runner-up
2013	Czech International	Wu Ti-jung	Jakub Bitman Alžběta Bášová	21–19, 21–13	Winner
2013	Malaysia International	Wu Ti-jung	Alfian Eko Prasetya Shendy Puspa Irawati	15–21, 16–21	Runner-up

  BWF International Challenge tournament

  BWF International Series tournament

  BWF Future Series tournament