Taiwanese boxer Lin Yu-ting (林郁婷) won a gold medal in the women’s featherweight division at the Olympics on Saturday in Paris, boosting Team Taiwan’s medal count to two golds and five bronzes.
The medal count is the third time Taiwan has won two golds in a single edition of the Olympic Games.
Lin, 28, clinched the gold in the women’s 57kg boxing division after defeating Julia Szeremeta of Poland by a 5-0 unanimous decision, completing a long journey to success after she was eliminated from the Tokyo Games three years ago in her opening bout.
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Taiwan’s other gold in Paris was bagged by the badminton duo of Lee Yang (李洋) and Wang Chi-lin (王齊麟) in the men’s doubles.
Lee and Yang defeated China’s Wang Chang (王昶) and Liang Weikeng (梁偉鏗) in the final on Aug. 4, becoming the first men’s doubles team in Olympic Games history to win back-to-back titles. The Taiwanese duo won gold at the Tokyo Olympics in 2021.
Team Taiwan’s performance peaked at the 2020 Tokyo Games (held in 2021 because of the COVID-19 pandemic) with two golds, four silvers and six bronzes. The two golds were won in men’s doubles badminton and women’s 59kg weightlifting.
The 2004 Athens Olympics was another milestone, with Taiwanese athletes winning their first gold medals — one each in men’s and women’s taekwondo — two silver’s and one bronze.
Taiwanese breakdancer Sun Chen (孫振) on Saturday was eliminated at the Olympics’ first breaking event after he failed to advance to the quarter-final by finishing third in the group event.
Meanwhile, Taiwanese golfer Hsu Wei-ling (徐薇淩) shot a four-under-par 68 on Saturday, ending with a five-under-par 283 over four rounds, tied for 8th place, the best performance among Taiwanese female golfers in the competition.
Chien Pei-yun (錢珮芸) carded a four-under-par 68 on Saturday, finishing with a two-under-par 286, and tied for 18th place.
On the last day of the Paris Olympics yesterday, there were still events including track and field, basketball, freecycling, handball, modern pentathlon and other events on the schedule.
However, the Taiwan team concluded all its Olympics competitions on Saturday.
The 2028 Summer Olympics will be held in Los Angeles.
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