Taiwan has finished the Tokyo Olympics with 12 medals. That means the country ended the Games in 22nd place out of almost 100 teams, according to total medals won. Taiwan also finished in 34th place by number of gold medals.
Team Taiwan won two gold, four silver, and six bronze medals at the Tokyo Olympics, more than double its previous record of five medals from the Athens Games in 2004.
The team also recorded many Olympic firsts, winning medals in six new sports, including judo, golf, gymnastics, boxing, karate and badminton.
Weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun broke three Olympic records with her scores in the women’s 59kg category. Meanwhile, badminton duo Lee Yang and Wang Chi-lin were the first unranked team ever from any country to win a gold in men’s doubles at the Olympics.
Taiwan’s silver medals went to Yang Yung-wei in the men's 60kg judo event; Lee Chih-kai in men’s pommel horse; Tai Tzu-ying in women’s badminton; and Tang Chih-chun, Wei Chun-heng and Deng Yu-cheng in men’s team archery.
Pan Cheng-tsung, also known as C.T. Pan, won a bronze in golf, making him the first Asian man to win an Olympic medal in the sport.
Another bronze medalist was 19-year old taekwondo athlete Lo Chia-ling. She and table tennis player Lin Yun-ju, also 19, were the youngest medalists on Taiwan’s team.
Boxer Huang Hsiao-wen made her first appearance at an Olympics this year, winning a bronze in the 51kg flyweight category, Taiwan’s first medal in boxing.
Chen Wen-huei won a bronze in the women’s weightlifting 64 kg category class.
Wen Tzu-yun won a bronze in karate in the 55kg kumite category.
Taiwanese mixed table tennis pair Lin Yun-ju and Cheng I-ching also won a bronze, Taiwan’s first medal in the sport in 21 years.
In total, Taiwan’s national team had 68 athletes competing in 18 sports.