Tang Chih-chun (; born 16 March 2001)
is a Taiwanese
archer
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competing in men's
recurve events. He won the gold medal in the
men's team recurve event, alongside Luo Wei-min and
Wei Chun-heng, at the
2018 Asian Games
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held in Jakarta, Indonesia.
In 2018, he competed at the
Summer Youth Olympics
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held in Buenos Aires, Argentina without winning a medal. In the
boys' singles he reached the elimination rounds where he was eliminated in his second elimination match, by Trenton Cowles of the United States. Cowles went on to win the gold medal. In the
mixed team he reached the bronze medal match, alongside Rebecca Jones of New Zealand, and they lost their match against Quinn Reddig of Namibia and Trenton Cowles.
In 2019, Tang and
Wei Chun-heng won the silver medal in the
men's team event at the
Summer Universiade
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The Universiade is referr ...
held in Naples, Italy.
In 2021, he
represented Chinese Taipei at the
2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, winning the silver medal in the Men's Team event, while barely missing a medal due to placing fourth in the Men's individual event.
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Living people
2001 births
Place of birth missing (living people)
Taiwanese male archers
Asian Games medalists in archery
Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
Archers at the 2018 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Archers at the 2018 Summer Youth Olympics
Universiade medalists in archery
Universiade silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
Medalists at the 2019 Summer Universiade
Olympic archers for Taiwan
Archers at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in archery
Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan
21st-century Taiwanese people
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