Chinese Taipei at the Olympics explained

Noc:	TPE
Nocname:	Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
Games:	Olympics
Flagcaption:	Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
Website:
Rank:	63
Gold:	9
Silver:	11
Bronze:	23
See also:	(1924–1948)

Taiwan, officially the Republic of China (ROC), competes as "Chinese Taipei" (TPE) at the Olympic Games since 1984. Athletes compete under the Chinese Taipei Olympic flag instead of the flag of the Republic of China; for any medal ceremony, the National Flag Anthem of the Republic of China is played instead of the National Anthem of the Republic of China.

Taiwanese athletes won their first Olympic medal in 1960, and their first gold medal in 2004. Taiwan achieved their highest total medal count at the 2020 games.

Participation

Timeline of participation

Olympic year/s	team
				Taiwan
1924			(Chine)^[1] ^[2]	as part of Japan
1932–1936			(CHN)
1948
1952		People's Republic of China (PRC)
1956			Republic of China (CHN)
1960	Formosa (RCF)
1964–1968	Taiwan (TWN)
1972–1976	Republic of China (ROC)
1980		China (CHN)
since 1984		Chinese Taipei (TPE)

Timeline concerning Olympic recognition

The following timeline concerns the different names and principal events concerning recognition of the Republic of China (ROC) Olympic team:

• 1922 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation is recognised by the International Olympic Committee (IOC) as the National Olympic Committee in China.^[3]
• 1932 – ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China.^[4]
• 1949 – The China National Amateur Athletic Federation moves to Taiwan.^[5]
• 1952 – ROC team withdraws from the Helsinki Olympics^[6] because the IOC permits the People's Republic of China (PRC) to participate.^[5]
• 1954 – IOC adopts a resolution officially recognising the PRC's Chinese Olympic Committee.^[7]
• 1956 – ROC represents at Melbourne Games as the Republic of China. PRC withdraws from the Games in protest because two Chinese Olympic Committees are in the list of IOC members.^{[8] [7]}
• 1958 – PRC withdraws from Olympic movement and all federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Dong Shouyi, an IOC member for the PRC resigns.^{[8] [9]}
• 1959 – IOC informs the ROC that they do not control sport on Mainland China, rules determine the ROC will no longer be recognised under the "Chinese Olympic Committee" title. All applications under a different name would be considered.^[9]
• 1960 – ROC committee is renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognised.^[8]
• 1963 – IOC recognizes the name "Taiwan", and the NOC is allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits.^[8]
• 1968 – IOC agrees to renaming the Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to its participation under that banner.^[8]
• 1976 – ROC is not permitted to participate in the Montreal Summer Games, as long as it insists on the name of Republic of China, because the host country, Canada, recognises the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.^{[10] [11]}
• 1979 – IOC recognises the Chinese Olympic Committee as the official representative of China.^[9] The IOC decision is followed by a postal ballot among 89 members.^[12] Under the IOC decision, the ROC's Olympics committee would be renamed as "Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee" and is not allowed to use the ROC's national anthem or flag.
• 1980 – ROC boycotts the Lake Placid Winter Games and the Moscow Summer Games due to the decision to use the name Chinese Taipei in international sporting events.^[13]
• 1981 – An agreement is signed in Lausanne by Juan Antonio Samaranch, the president of the IOC, and Shen Chia-ming, the president of the Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC).^[14] The agreement specifies the name, flag and emblem of the CTOC.
• 1984 – Chinese Taipei competes for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Winter Games.

Medals

See also: All-time Olympic Games medal table.

Medals by Summer Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
	as part of Japan
	as part of the Republic of China^[15]
	did not participate
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	1	0	1	32
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	1	1
		0	0	0	0	–
	boycotted
		0	0	1	1	43
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	1	0	1	49
		0	1	0	1	61
		0	1	4	5	58
		2	2	1	5	31
		1	1	2	4	45
		1	0	1	2
		1	0	2	3	50
align = left			2	4	6	12	34
align = left			2	0	5	7	35
Total		9	11	23	43

Medals by Winter Games

Games	Athletes	Gold	Silver	Bronze	Total	Rank
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
	boycotted
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
		0	0	0	0	–
	future event
Total		0	0	0	0

Medals by summer sport

List of medalists

Medal	Players/Players in the team	Games	Sport	Event
				Men's decathlon
				Women's 80 metre hurdles
				Men's 60 kg
				Men's competition
				Women's singles
				Women's 53 kg
				Women's singles
				Women's 49 kg
				Men's 58 kg
				Women's 75 kg
				Women's flyweight
				Men's flyweight
				Men's team
				Men's lightweight
				Women's team
				Women's 48 kg
				Women's 63 kg
				Men's 58 kg
				Men's 68 kg
				Women's 57 kg
				Women's 53 kg
				Women's team
				Women's 58 kg
				Women's 59 kg
				Men's doubles
				Men's 60 kg
				Men's team
	Lee Chih-kai			Men's pommel horse
				Women's singles
				Women's 57 kg
				Mixed doubles
				Women's 64 kg
				Men's individual
				Women's flyweight
				Women's 55 kg
				Men's doubles
				Women's 57 kg
				Men's skeet
				Women's 60 kg
				Men's horizontal bar
				Women's 66 kg
				Women's 59 kg

See also

• List of flag bearers for Chinese Taipei at the Olympics
  • Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
• Chinese Taipei Olympic flag
• Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games
• Republic of China at the Olympics
• Chinese Taipei at the Paralympics

External links

• Web site: Chinese Taipei . 27 July 2021 . International Olympic Committee .
• Web site: Chinese Taipei . Olympedia.com .
• Web site: Olympic Analytics/TPE . olympanalyt.com .

Notes and References

1. [Republic of China at the 1924 Summer Olympics|China]
2. Book: Les Jeux de la VIII^e Olympiade Paris 1924 – Rapport Officiel . M. Avé . Librairie de France . Paris . fr . 16 October 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110505162957/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1924/1924.pdf . 5 May 2011 . 39 seulement s'alignérent, ne représentant plus que 24 nations, la Chine, le Portugal et la Yougoslavie ayant déclaré forfait. . dead .
3. Web site: 奧會簡介. Introduction to the Olympic Committee. zh. Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee. 9 July 2022. 30 April 2023. https://web.archive.org/web/20230430064435/https://www.tpenoc.net/info/. live.
4. Web site: X Olympiad Los Angeles 1932 Official Report. https://web.archive.org/web/20100707164120/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1932/1932s.pdf. 7 July 2010. LA84 Foundation. 9 July 2022.
5. Chan. Gerald. Autumn 1985. The "Two-Chinas" Problem and the Olympic Formula. Pacific Affairs. 58. 3. 473–490. 10.2307/2759241. 2759241. 9 July 2022. 4 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220204040844/https://www.jstor.org/stable/2759241. live.
6. Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, Web site: The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952 . https://web.archive.org/web/20080411091045/http://www.la84foundation.org/6oic/OfficialReports/1952/OR1952.pdf . dead . 11 April 2008.   p. 32, Sulo Kolkka (ed.), Alex Matson (trans.), The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, 1952
7. Web site: 10th–15th Olympic Summer Games: 1936–1952. Chinese Olympics Committee. 30 March 2004. 2008-11-29. 2016-09-19. https://web.archive.org/web/20160919084635/http://en.olympic.cn/china_oly/china_olympic/2004-03-30/124550.html. live.
8. The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976
9. Globalization is not a Dinner Party: He Zhenliang and China's 30-Year Struggle for Recognition by the International Olympic Committee . Brownell . Susan . March 2005 . LA84 Foundation . Globalization and Sport in Historical Context . University of California, San Diego . 2022-07-09 . 2022-07-09 . https://web.archive.org/web/20220709034920/https://digital.la84.org/digital/collection/p17103coll10/id/14310/rec/1 . live .
10. Pound. Richard W.. 2012. Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games. Journal of Olympic History. 20. 1. 11–32. 9 July 2022. 18 November 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221118210323/https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n1j.pdf. live.
11. Pound. Richard W.. 2012. Side-Swiped: the IOC and the China Issue at the 1976 Montreal Olympic Games Part 2. Journal of Olympic History. 20. 2. 34–51. 9 July 2022. 16 August 2024. https://web.archive.org/web/20240816035801/https://isoh.org/wp-content/uploads/JOH-Archives/JOHv20n2q.pdf. live.
12. China and the Five Rings. Olympic Review. 145. 626. November 1979. 9 July 2022. 6 February 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220206045359/https://library.olympics.com/Default/doc/SYRACUSE/168903/olympic-review-official-publication-of-the-olympic-movement-vol-145-november-1979. live.
13. Eaton. Joseph. November 2016. Reconsidering the 1980 Moscow Olympic Boycott: American Sports Diplomacy in East Asian Perspective. Diplomatic History. 40. 5. 845–864. 10.1093/dh/dhw026. 26376807. 9 July 2022. 23 October 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20221023092500/https://www.jstor.org/stable/26376807. live.
14. Web site: 1981 Agreement with IOC. PDF. Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee. 23 March 1981. 9 July 2022. 12 September 2021. https://web.archive.org/web/20210912031625/https://drive.google.com/file/d/1AqIYensMNiiYfJaz8DAYrRxdxVNwa6H9/view. live.
15. Web site: Chen Yinglang. olympedia.org. 9 July 2022. 8 July 2022. https://web.archive.org/web/20220708194501/https://www.olympedia.org/athletes/66504. live.