Wang Chi-lin (; born 18 January 1995) is a Taiwanese

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player who specializes in doubles. He is the

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Olympics men's doubles champion, becoming the first doubles pair in Olympics history to win consecutive gold medals, and the first unseeded men's double to win the Olympics gold medals. He also won the men's doubles bronze medals at the 2018 World Championships,

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, and at the 2023 Asian Championships. He reached a career high as World number 2 in September 2022 with his former partner Lee Yang. Wang also competed in the mixed doubles, winning the gold medal at the

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with

Lee Chia-hsin Lee Chia-hsin (; born 14 May 1997) is a Taiwanese badminton player. She won her first international title at the 2013 Polish International in the women's doubles event partnered with Wu Ti-jung. Lee was the gold medalists at the 2017 Summer U ...

, with their career high were number 10 in the

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s in June 2018.

Career

In 2018, Wang won the bronze medal at the 2018 World Championships with

Chen Hung-ling Chen Hung-ling (; born 10 February 1986) is a Taiwanese former badminton player. Chen Hung-ling is a doubles specialist. His best results have come with Cheng Wen-hsing in the mixed doubles, but he routinely competes in the men's doubles with ...

. He then represented Chinese Taipei in the

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, helping the team won the men's team bronze medal. Since his partner

decided to retire from the international competition, Wang then made a new partnership with Lee Yang. Wang and Lee were classmates in junior high school. The duo reached six finals in the

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, managing to win the Spain Masters, Orléans Masters,

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, and Korea Masters. He also finished as the mixed doubles finalist in the Spain Masters with new partner Cheng Chi-ya. In 2021, at the

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, he and his partner Lee Yang defeated the 2018 World Champions'

Li Junhui Li Junhui (, born 10 May 1995) is a Chinese badminton player. He was the gold medalist at the 2018 World Championships in the men's doubles event partnered with Liu Yuchen, two times won the gold medal at the Asian Championships in 2017 and 20 ...

and

Liu Yuchen Liu Yuchen ( zh, s=刘雨辰, p=Liú Yǔchén, born 25 July 1995) is a Chinese badminton player. He was the men's doubles World Champion in 2018, two-time Asian Champion in 2017 and 2018, and also a silver medalist at the 2020 Summer Olympics p ...

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. In 2022, Wang and Lee were named two of Taiwan's Ten Outstanding Young Persons by the Junior Chamber International Taiwan. In 2024, at the

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, he and his partner Lee Yang repeated the feat to win in the men's doubles finals as an unseeded pair, making history as the first men’s doubles pair to successfully defend their Olympic title.

Achievements

Olympic Games

''Men's doubles''

World Championships

''Men's doubles''

Asian Games

''Men's doubles''

Summer Universiade

''Mixed doubles''

Asian Championships

''Men's doubles''

World University Championships

''Men's doubles''

World Junior Championships

''Boys' doubles''

Asian Junior Championships

''Boys' doubles''

BWF World Tour (12 titles, 9 runners-up)

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(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. ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles''

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

(BWF) and played between 2007 and 2017. ''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' : BWF Grand Prix Gold tournament : BWF Grand Prix tournament

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

''Men's doubles'' ''Mixed doubles'' :

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tournament :

BWF International Series The BWF International Series is a grade 3 and level 2 tournament part of Continental Circuit of BWF tournaments along with International Challenge (level 1) and Future Series (level 3), sanctioned by Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007. ...

tournament :

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tournament

References

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Wang Chi-lin
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