Chinese Taipei at the 2017 Asian Winter Games explained
Noc: | TPE |
Nocname: | Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee |
Year: | 2017 |
Date: | February 19–26 |
Games: | Asian Winter Games |
Location: | Sapporo and Obihiro |
Competitors: | 41 |
Sports: | 5 |
Flagbearer: | Shen Yen-chin(Opening Ceremony)Amy Lin(Closing Ceremony) |
Gold: | 0 |
Silver: | 0 |
Bronze: | 0 |
Appearances: | auto |
Chinese Taipei is scheduled to compete in the 2017 Asian Winter Games in Sapporo and Obihiro, Japan from February 19 to 26.[1] [2] Chinese Taipei is scheduled to compete in all five sports (seven disciplines).[3] The Chinese Taipei delegation consists of 41 athletes and 30 officials.[4] [5] This marks the nation's largest ever Asian Winter Games team in terms of athletes and officials sent.[6]
Competitors
The following table lists the Chinese Taipei delegation per sport and gender.
Alpine skiing
See main article: Alpine skiing at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei's Alpine skiing team consists of three athletes (two men and one woman).[5]
- Men
- Woman
Biathlon
See main article: Biathlon at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei's biathlon team consists of one male athlete.[5]
- Man
Curling
See main article: Curling at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei has entered a men's team.[7] [8] The team consists of five athletes.[5]
Men's tournament
See main article: Curling at the 2017 Asian Winter Games – Men's tournament.
- Randolph Shen – skip
- Nicholas Hsu – third
- Brendon Liu – second
- Ting-Li Lin – lead
- Steve Koo – alternate
- Round-robinChinese Taipei has a bye in draw 2
Draw 1 Saturday, February 18, 9:00
Draw 3Sunday, February 19, 9:00
Draw 4Monday, February 20, 13:30
Draw 5Tuesday, February 21, 9:00
Draw 6Tuesday, February 21, 18:00
- SemifinalsWednesday, February 22, 1:30
- Bronze medal matchThursday, February 23, 1:30
- Chinese Taipei finishes in fourth place.
Figure skating
See main article: Figure skating at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei's figure skating team consists of three athletes (two men and one woman).[5]
- Singles
Athlete | Event | | | Total |
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Points | Rank | Points | Rank | Points | Rank |
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Tsao Chih-I | Men's | 63.68 | 11 | | | | |
Lee Meng-ju | 44.49 | 16 | | | | |
Amy Lin | Ladies | 47.15 | 10 | | | | | |
Ice hockey
See main article: Ice hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei has entered a men's team. The team will compete in the Division one.[9] [10] Chinese Taipei finished in second place (6th place overall) in division 1 of the competition.[11]
Men's tournament
See main article: Ice hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games – Men's tournament. Chinese Taipei was represented by the following 20 athletes:[5]
- Huang Sheng-chun (G)
- Liao Yu-cheng (G)
- Ting Pang-keng (G)
- Chang Hsing-han (D)
- Chang Wei-ting (D)
- Chao Yu-tung (D)
- Huang Jen-hung (D)
- Shen Yen-lin (D)
- Yang Chang-lin (D)
- Yang Hsiao-hao (D)
- Chang Kai-hsiang (F)
- Chang Tse-wei (F)
- Chen Jui-tang (F)
- Chiu Yi-wei (F)
- Lin Hung-ju (F)
- Lin Tzu-chieh (F)
- Shen Yen-chin (F)
- Tang Yi-cheng (F)
- Weng To (F)
- Yang Chang-hsing (F)
- Legend
- G– Goalie D = Defense-man F = Forward
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Short track speed skating
See main article: Short track speed skating at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei's short track speed skating team consists of eight athletes (4 men and 4 women).[5]
- Men
- Lin Chung-Chieh
- Lin Xian-You
- Su Jun-Peng
- Tsai Chia-Wei
- Women
- Lin Yu-Tzu
- Lu Chia-Tung
- Wang Kuan-Ming
- Yang Zih-Shian
Speed skating
See main article: Speed skating at the 2017 Asian Winter Games. Chinese Taipei's speed skating team consists of one male athlete.[5]
- Man
Athlete | Event | Final |
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Time | Rank |
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align=left rowspan=2 | Sung Ching-yang | 500 m | 35.74 | 9 |
1000 m | 1:12.46 | 16 | |
Notes and References
- Web site: Sapporo 2017 . www.ocasia.org/ . . 25 November 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161111113043/http://www.ocasia.org/Game/GameParticular.aspx?9QoyD9QEWPenUzDm9A5cxw. 11 November 2016 . dead .
- Web site: OCA welcomes record number of teams, athletes to Sapporo 2017 . www.ocasia.org/ . . 17 February 2017 . 17 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170819144530/http://www.ocasia.org/News/IndexNewsRM.aspx?WKegervtea3Kj2tgwUEW%2Fw=%3D . 19 August 2017 . dead .
- Web site: 2017 Sapporo AWG sport entries by NOC . 16 December 2016 . www.sapporo2017.org . 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee . 16 December 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20161220185609/https://sapporo2017.org/site/news-en/12161.html . 20 December 2016 . dead .
- Web site: Chinese Taipei will attend the 8th Sapporo Asian Winter Games in 2017 . 我國參加2017年第8屆札幌亞洲冬季運動會授旗典禮 . Chinese . 9 February 2017 . www.tpenoc.net/ . . 11 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170212093456/http://www.tpenoc.net/?p=8375 . 12 February 2017 . dead .
- Web site: Chinese Taipei Delegation for the 8th Sapporo Winter Asian Games 2017 . Chinese, English . 13 February 2017 . www.tpenoc.net/ . . 13 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170213165605/http://www.tpenoc.net/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/2017%E6%9C%AD%E5%B9%8C%E4%BA%9E%E5%86%AC%E9%81%8B%E5%9C%98%E5%93%A1%E6%89%8B%E5%86%8C-1.pdf?gid=6 . 13 February 2017 . dead .
- Web site: 15 February 2016 . Chinese Taipei NOC sends record number of winter sports athletes to Sapporo 2017 . www.ocasia.org/ . . 15 February 2016.
- Web site: Curling Playing Schedule for the 8th Asian Winter Games Sapporo 2017 . 27 January 2017 . www.sapporo2017.org/ . 2017 Asian Winter Games Organizing Committee . 27 January 2017 .
- Web site: Asian Winter Games return to Sapporo for the third time . 15 February 2017 . www.worldcurling.org/ . . 15 February 2017 . https://web.archive.org/web/20170216061502/http://www.worldcurling.org/eighth-awg-preview . 16 February 2017 . dead .
- Web site: Entry list for hockey at the 2017 Asian Winter Games . 3 December 2016 . www.nationalteamsoficehockey.com/. National Teams of Ice hockey . 3 December 2016.
- Web site: Sapporo 2017 confirm entrants in men's and women's ice hockey tournaments . Morgan . Liam . 4 January 2017 . www.insidethegames.biz/ . Dunsar Media Ltd. . 4 January 2017.
- Web site: Ice hockey Men's Division I Tournament Progress. 25 February 2017. www.info.sapporo2017.org/. Sapporo Organizing Committee for the 2017 Asian Winter Games. 26 February 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170227145927/http://info.sapporo2017.org/ddr/12017100/IH/IH/M/401/00/TOURNAMENTPROGRESS.pdf?_=1488127489027. 27 February 2017. dead.