Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/12
By: Bear Lee

Taipei, July 12 (CNA) Taiwanese woman boxer Chen Nien-chin (陳念琴) snatched gold

medal by beating Hungary’s Szokol Fanni in the 75-kg category final of the Golden Glove Youth Men and Women Boxing Tournament held in Subotica, Serbia, Sunday.

Around 240 boxers, including 60 women, from 29 countries around the world were competing in the tournament.

The 18-year-old Chen was named the best youth female boxer of Asia by the Asian Boxing Confederation in 2013.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/11
By: Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Taiwan was ranked 14th on the medals table Saturday in the July 3-14 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea, with three gold medals, eight silvers and 12 bronzes.

Earlier that day, Taiwan shared gold with Japan after the baseball final was forced to be cancelled due to rain.

Taiwan won two silver medals that day, in the tennis women’s doubles and the table tennis mixed doubles, respectively.

It also won a bronze medal in the table tennis mixed doubles.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/11
By Lee Hsin-Yin

Taipei, July 11 (CNA) Taiwan shared baseball gold Saturday with its Japanese rival in the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea after the final was called off due to rain.

The game, which was scheduled to start at 6 p.m. (local time), was postponed until nearly 8:15 p.m. due to the rain, when the organizers finally had to announce that the match was canceled, leading to the two teams’ sharing the gold medal.

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/11
By: Oscar Wu, Bill Lin and Lee Hsin-Yin

Los Angeles, July 11 (CNA) Tsao Chin-hui (曹錦輝), the first Taiwanese pitcher to play

in the major leagues in the United States, helped the Los Angeles Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers 3-2 Friday in his first MLB appearance after an eight-year hiatus.

Tsao, who came on as relief pitcher in the seventh inning, managed to prevent the Brewers from winning more points as the Dodgers were behind 0-2.

The Dodgers then rallied to take a 3-2 lead in the bottom half of the inning.

The win was Tsao’s fifth in his career and first in more than a decade.     [FULL  STORY]

Want China Times
Date: 2015-07-11
By: CNA

Taiwan’s baseball team beat South Korea 2-0 in the semi-finals of the 2015 Summer

Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea on Friday, succeeding in winning its ticket to the finals.

It was the fourth victory Taiwan gained in the baseball event of the international multi-sport competition held every two years. Before Friday’s win, Taiwanese baseball players took down their rivals from Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic in the preliminary round.

The team will fight against Japan for the gold medal at 6 pm Saturday Taipei time.

In Friday’s game, Taiwan’s starter pitcher Sung Chia-hao and his successor Lin Tzu-wei joined hands to perform a perfect shutout, with their team scoring one point in the fifth and sixth innings, respectively.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/10
By: Lin Hung-hand, Lee Yu-cheng and Elizabeth Hsu

Taipei, July 10 (CNA) Taiwan’s baseball team beat South Korea 2-0 in the semi-finals of

the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea on Friday, succeeding in winning its ticket to the finals.

It was the fourth victory Taiwan gained in the baseball event of the international multi-sport competition held every two years. Before Friday’s win, Taiwanese baseball players took down their rivals from Mexico, the United States and Czech Republic in the preliminary round.

The team will fight against Japan for the gold medal at 6 p.m. Saturday Taipei time.

In Friday’s game, Taiwan’s starter pitcher Sung Chia-hao (宋家豪) and his successor Lin Tzu-wei (林子崴) joined hands to perform a perfect shutout, with their team scoring one point in the fifth and sixth innings, respectively.     [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/09
By: Y. C. Lee and Lillian Lin

Gwangju, July 9 (CNA) The 19-year-old Lin Wan-ting (林琬婷) of the Chinese Taipei team Thursday won the gold medal in the Taekwondo women-46 kg competition at the 2015 Gwangju World University Games.

This is the second gold won by Taiwanese university athletes. The Taiwanese team grabbed its first gold in women’s team recurve bow archery event Wednesday.

Lin beat Wilasinee Khamsribusa from Thailand 1-0 in a heated fight at the final. This is Lin’s second win over the Thai athlete in two consecutive years. Lin had a 5-4 win over Khamsribusa when the two met at the Korean open last year.

Lin defeated Korean Yu Suyeon to enter the final bout with the Thai athlete.

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2015/07/09
By: L. Y. Huang and Lillian Lin

Taipei, July 9 (CNA) Taipei Mayor Ko Wen-je (柯文哲) will leave for South Korea on

Sunday for a five-day visit, with his itinerary beginning at the 2015 Gwangju Universiade and ending in Seoul where he will view public housing and meet management of SM Entertainment.

Taipei City government spokesman Sidney Lin (林鶴明) said Thursday that as Taipei City will host the 2017 Universiade, Mayor Ko will receive the flag of the world university games from the Gwangju sponsor at the closing ceremony on July 14. He is also invited to speak at the ceremony.     [FULL  STORY]