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 Great Britain, 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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in Beijing 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

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in the first round, beating the Malaysian 107-106. In the second round Chen faced Balzhinima Tsyrempilov and was eliminated by 109-101. Together with Kuo Cheng-wei 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

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