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Chinese Taipei at the Olympic Games 
Chinese Taipei Olympic flag – Flag bearersIOC code TPE NOC Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee Website www.tpenoc.net (Chinese) (English) Olympic history Summer Games 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1996 • 2000 • 2004 • 2008 • 2012 Winter Games 1984 • 1988 • 1992 • 1994 • 1998 • 2002 • 2006 • 2010 Republic of China at the Olympic Games 
Flag of the Republic of China – Flag bearersIOC code ROC Olympic history Summer Games 1932 • 1936 • 1948 • 1952 • 1956 • 1960 • 1964 • 1968 • 1972 Winter Games 1972 • 1976 The Republic of China (ROC) currently competes as Chinese Taipei at the Olympic Games. The ROC first participated at the Summer Olympic Games in 1932. After the Chinese Civil War the ROC retreated to the island of Taiwan and only Taiwan based athletes have competed in its team since then.
Timeline concerning Olympic recognition
The following timeline concerns the different names and principle events concerning recognition of the ROC Olympic team:
- 1910: The "Chinese National Olympic Committee" is created.
- 1932: ROC competes in the Olympics for the first time as China [1]
- 1951: The Chinese National Olympic Committee moves from Nanking to Taipei;[1]
- 1952: ROC team briefly withdraws from the Olympics because its delegation was listed as China (Formosa);[2]
- 1954: IOC adopted a resolution officially recognising the People's Republic of China (PRC) “Chinese Olympics Committee”. The PRC is invited to take part in the 1956 Olympics. The PRC organises a delegation;[1][3]
- 1956: ROC represented at Melbourne Games as the Republic of China. PRC withdrew from the Games in protest because in the list of IOC members two Chinese National Olympic Committees were listed;[1][3]
- 1958: PRC withdrew from Olympic movement and from the federations governing Olympic sports. Professor Tung Hou Yi, an IOC member for the PRC resigned;[1]
- 1959: ROC informed that as it did not control sport on Mainland China, it could not continue to be recognized as the "Chinese National Olympic Committee". All applications under a different name would be considered;[1]
- 1960: ROC committee renamed the "Olympic Committee of the Republic of China", and so recognized.;[1]
- 1963: Agreed by the IOC that during an Olympic Games the delegation from Taiwan should be known as Taiwan but would be allowed to use the initials "ROC" on sports outfits;[1]
- 1968: IOC agreed to renaming Taiwan team as the Republic of China after the 1968 Games and to their participaton under that banner;[1]
- 1976: ROC is not permitted to participate in the Montreal Games as long as it insists on the name "Republic of China," because the host country recognized the PRC as the sole legitimate government of China.
- 1979: IOC recognises the PRC Olympics committee as representing China for the first time since Communist rule began in 1949. The IOC decision followed a postal ballot among 89 members. Under the IOC decision, the ROC’s Olympics committee would be: renamed the “Chinese Taipei Olympics Committee”; recognised only as a provincial body; and would no longer be allowed to use the ROC's national anthem or flag at the Olympic Games.[1][3]
- 1980: Chinese Taipei boycotts the Moscow Games due to the decision it must use the name Chinese Taipei in international sporting events.
- 1984: Chinese Taipei competes for the first time under the new moniker at the Sarajevo Games.
ROC athletes have won a total of 19 medals at the Summer Games, with taekwondo as the top medal-producing sport. The ROC has never won a medal at the Winter Olympic Games.
Contents
Medalists
Medal tables
See also: All-time Olympic Games medal tableMedals by Games
- As ROC
Games Gold Silver Bronze Total 1912 Stockholm did not participate 1920 Antwerp did not participate 1924 Paris did not participate 1928 Amsterdam did not participate 1932 Los Angeles 0 0 0 0 1936 Berlin 0 0 0 0 1948 London 0 0 0 0 1952 Helsinki did not participate 1956 Melbourne 0 0 0 0 1960 Rome 0 1 0 1 1964 Tokyo 0 0 0 0 1968 Mexico City 0 0 1 1 1972 Munich 0 0 0 0 1976 Montreal did not participate Total 0 1 1 2 - As TPE
Games Gold Silver Bronze Total 1980 Moscow did not participate 1984 Los Angeles 0 0 1 1 1988 Seoul 0 0 0 0 1992 Barcelona 0 1 0 1 1996 Atlanta 0 1 0 1 2000 Sydney 0 1 4 5 2004 Athens 2 2 1 5 2008 Beijing 0 0 4 4 Total 2 5 10 17 Medals by sport
Sport Gold Silver Bronze Total Taekwondo 2 1 4 7 Weightlifting 0 1 4 5 Archery 0 1 1 2 Athletics 0 1 1 2 Table tennis 0 1 1 2 Baseball 0 1 0 1 Total 2 6 11 19 See also
- Category:Olympic competitors for Taiwan
- Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee
- Chinese Taipei flag
- Chinese Taipei at the Asian Games
References
- ^ a b c d e f g h i The Times, "The Latest Threat to the Olympics - And its all over a name", 10 July 1976
- ^ Werner Soderstrom Osakeyhtio, The Official Report of the Organising Committee for the Games of the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952PDF (30.6 MB) , Sulo Kolkka (ed.), Alex Matson (trans.), The Organising Committee for the XV Olympiad Helsinki 1952, 1952
- ^ a b c Chinese Olympics Committee website
Other references
- "Olympic Medal Winners". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/athletes/results/search_r_uk.asp. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
- "Olympic Committee". International Olympic Committee. http://www.olympic.org/uk/organisation/noc/noc_uk.asp?noc_initials=TPE. Retrieved 2007-12-18.
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