Yu Guan-lin ( zh, t=余冠燐, p=Yú Guānlín; born 29 November 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 modern ...

. He won a bronze medal in the men's team recurve at the 2015 Asian Championships, and also competed as a member of Chinese Taipei's archery squad at the

2016 Summer Olympics The 2016 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXXI Olympiad () and officially branded as Rio 2016, were an international multi-sport event held from 5 to 21 August 2016 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with preliminary events i ...

. Yu was selected to compete for the Taiwanese squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, shooting both in individual and team recurve tournaments. First, Yu amassed a total of 679 points out of a maximum 720 to obtain the thirty-ninth seed heading to the knockout stage, along with his team's score of 1,995 collected from the classification round. Entering the men's team recurve as the seventh-seeded squad, Yu and fellow rookies Kao Hao-wen and

Wei Chun-heng Wei Chun-heng ( zh, t=魏均珩, p=Wèi Jūnháng, born June 6, 1994) is a Taiwanese competitive archer. He won a bronze medal in the men's team recurve at the 2015 Asian Championships, and also competed as a member of Chinese Taipei's archery ...

succumbed unexpectedly to a tough 2–6 defeat from the unheralded Indonesians in their elimination round match. Unable to recover from his team's premature exit, Yu was shortly eliminated in a tough 5–6 shoot-off against Norway's three-time Olympian

Bård Nesteng Bård Magnus Nesteng (born 14 May 1979, in Fredrikstad, Norway) is a Norwegian archer. He competed at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, and the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Personal life Nesteng w ...

during their opening-round encounter of the men's individual recurve.

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* Taiwanese male archers 1993 births Living people Sportspeople from Nantou County Olympic archers for Taiwan Archers at the 2016 Summer Olympics Summer World University Games medalists in archery FISU World University Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei Medalists at the 2015 Summer Universiade World Archery Championships medalists 21st-century Taiwanese sportsmen {{Taiwan-archery-bio-stub