Lin Shih-chia (; born 20 May 1993) is a Taiwanese competitive

archer Archery is the sport, practice, or skill of using a bow to shoot arrows.Paterson ''Encyclopaedia of Archery'' p. 17 The word comes from the Latin ''arcus'', meaning bow. Historically, archery has been used for hunting and combat. In mo ...

. She has won a career total of four medals (one gold, two silver, and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the

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, the

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, and the

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. Lin rose to prominence in the global archery scene at the

2015 Summer Universiade The 2015 Summer Universiade ( ko, 2015년 하계 유니버시아드, Icheon sip-o nyeon Hagye Yunibeosiadeu), officially known as the XXVIII Summer Universiade ( ko, 제28회 하계 유니버시아드, Jeisippalhoe Hagye Yunibeosiadeu) and also kn ...

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, South Korea. There, she confidently took out the slick South Korean women from the final match 5–3 to hand the trio of Hsiung Mei-chien and London 2012 Olympian

Tan Ya-ting Tan Ya-ting (; born 7 November 1993) is an archer who represents Chinese Taipei. She is a three-time Olympian, having participated at the 2010 Summer Youth Olympics and the 2012 and 2016 Summer Olympics. She has additionally competed in the Worl ...

a gold-medal triumph in the team recurve tournament. Shortly after the Universiade, Lin continued to build her success in the sport by adding two more medals to her career treasury, a silver each in the individual and mixed team recurve, at the

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, Denmark. Lin was selected to compete for Chinese Taipei's archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in

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, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments. Two months before her maiden Games, she commanded the Chinese Taipei trio in defeating the Estonian side for one of three women's team spaces at the World Archery Cup meet in

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, Turkey. Lin opened the tournament by discharging 651 points, 15 perfect tens, and 6 bull's eyes to seal the ninth seed against a field of 63 other archers in the classification round, along with her trio's cumulative score of 1,932. Sitting outside of the top three at fourth position in the team recurve, Lin and her compatriots Tan and

Le Chien-ying Lei Chien-ying (, born 17 April 1990) is a Taiwanese archer. At the 2012 Summer Olympics she competed for her country in the women's team event and women's individual event. She also represented Chinese Taipei at the 2016 Summer Olympics in ...

bounced back from their semifinal defeat to the eventual champions South Korea to secure a 5–3 triumph over the Italian women for the bronze medal. In the women's individual recurve, Lin successfully held off a spirited challenge by Egypt's Reem Mansour in the opening round, before she faced a 2–6 defeat in her subsequent match from the unheralded Indian

Bombayla Devi Laishram Bombayla Devi Laishram (born 22 February 1985) is an Indian archer. A member of the national recurve team representing India at the international events since 2007, she has won a silver medal at the World Archery Championships, and four gold, ...

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* Taiwanese female archers Living people People from Hsinchu 1993 births Olympic archers for Taiwan Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics World Archery Championships medalists Medalists at the 2016 Summer Olympics Olympic bronze medalists for Taiwan Olympic medalists in archery Universiade medalists in archery FISU World University Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade 21st-century Taiwanese women {{Taiwan-archery-bio-stub