Chen Szu-yuan (; born 7 February 1981) is an athlete from the

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. He competes in

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2004 Summer Olympics

Chen competed for the Republic of China (as

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) at the

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in men's individual archery. He won his first three elimination matches, advancing to the quarterfinals. In the quarterfinals, Chen faced Laurence Godfrey of

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, losing 110-108 in the 12-arrow match. Chen placed 7th overall. Chen was also a member of Chinese Taipei's

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men's archery team at the 2004 Summer Olympics.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

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Chen finished his ranking round with a total of 654 points. This gave him the 38th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Muhammad Marbawi in the first round, beating the

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n 107-106. In the second round Chen faced

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and was eliminated by 109-101. Together with

Kuo Cheng-wei Kuo Cheng-wei (; born 9 November 1983) is a Taiwanese professional archery, archer representing Chinese Taipei. He competed in Archery at the 2006 Asian Games and won a silver medal with the men's team consisting of himself ...

and Wang Cheng-pang he also took part in the team event. With his 654 score from the ranking round combined with the 667 of Pang and the 659 of Kuo they were in seventh position after the ranking round. In the first round they were too strong for the

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team 222-218, but in the quarter-final they were unable to beat the Ukrainian team 214-211.

References

1981 births Living people Archers at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Olympic archers for Taiwan Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan Olympic medalists in archery Asian Games medalists in archery Archers at the 2002 Asian Games Archers at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2004 Summer Olympics Archers at the 2010 Asian Games Taiwanese male archers Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei Medalists at the 2006 Asian Games Medalists at the 2002 Asian Games 21st-century Taiwanese sportsmen Place of birth missing (living people) {{taiwan-Olympic-medalist-stub