Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/27
By: Oscar Wu and Chi Jo-yao

Taipei, April 27 (CNA) Taiwan’s cheerleading squad snagged a bronze medal in the Coed Premier division at the 2019 World Cheerleading Championships in the United States on Friday.

After ranking first in the preliminary contest, the Taiwan team finished in third place, behind the U.S. and Canada in the Coed Premier, the top division in the tournament.

Coach Liao Chih-hua (廖志華) said that although it is always an honor to win a medal, the Taiwan team fell short of expectations and he hoped they would do better next year.

According to the local Apple Daily newspaper, it was the ninth year of competition in the World Cheerleading Championships for one of the team members Wu Han-yin (吳函茵).    [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 28, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA and AFP

Chou Tien-chen yesterday fell 22-20, 21-18 to China’s Shi Yuqi in the Badminton Asia

Championships semi-finals in Wuhan, China.

Shi needed only 46 minutes to see off Taiwan’s world No. 5 and set up a final pitting the top two men’s singles players against one another.

Title-holder Kento Momota is to face Shi today, after the Japanese eased through his semi-final with a 21-18, 21-8 victory over unseeded Vietnamese veteran Nguyen Tien Minh.

Chou on Friday became the first Taiwanese in the past 20 years to advance to the semi-finals of the men’s singles after defeating Japan’s Kenta Nishimoto 22-20, 24-26, 21-15.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/25
By: Lung Po-an and Chung Yu-chen

Taipei, April 25 (CNA) Taiwanese Chou Tien-chen (周天成) advanced to the

quarterfinals of the men’s singles at the Badminton Asia Championships in China on Thursday with a win over his Chinese competitor.

In a match that last 36 minutes, the fifth-seeded Chou scored a 21-10, 21-10 victory over Lin Dan (林丹), who had won six of seven of their previous encounters, including the most recent one at the Malaysia Open in Kuala Lumpur earlier in the month.

At the Badminton Asia Championships in Wuhan, Chou will next face Japanese Kenta Nishimoto, whom he has defeated in three of their four previous matches.
[FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/24
By: Lin Hung-han, Yang Chi-fang and William Yen

Los Angeles, April 23 (CNA) Taiwanese baseball pitcher Wei-Chieh Huang (黃暐傑) was called up Tuesday to play for the Texas Rangers in the United States major league.

The right-hander was called up from the minor league Frisco RoughRiders to relieve left-hander Drew Smyly, who has been placed on the injured list due to a problem with his pitching arm.

In Huang’s major league debut against the Oakland Athletics on their home field Tuesday, he allowed two runs and retired seven batters in the 2.1 innings he pitched, but the Athletics won the game 11-5.

Huang, 25, is in his fifth year in the U.S. leagues and is the 15th Taiwanese to play in the major league, following infielders, outfielders and pitchers such as Chen Chin-feng (陳金鋒) and Chien-Ming Wang (王建民).    [FULL  STORY]

Emerges from packed leaderboard to win by one shot at Harbour Town Golf Links

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/22
By:  Associated Press

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Pan Cheng-tsung (潘政琮) took advantage of Dustin

Johnson’s back-nine struggles to win the RBC Heritage for his first PGA TOUR victory on April 21, local time.

The 27-year-old Pan, from Taiwan, closed with a 4-under 67 on Sunday at Harbour Town Golf Links for a one-stroke victory over Matt Kuchar. Pan finished at 12-under 272.

“It’s still really hard for me to believe,” he said. “I’m processing. My phone has been vibrating the last 10 minutes. I’m so happy I finally got it done.”

Johnson, the third-round leader in his home-state event, had a 77 to tie for 28th at 4 under. He played a five-hole stretch in 7 over, making bogeys on Nos. 11-13 and double bogeys on Nos. 14-15.    [FULL  STORY]

Focus Taiwan
Date: 2019/04/23
By: Lung Po-an and Evelyn Kao

Taipei, April 23 (CNA) Taiwanese weightlifter Kuo Hsing-chun (郭婞淳) broke three world records, winning three gold medals Tuesday at the 2019 Asian Weightlifting Championships (AWC) in China’s eastern coastal city of Ningbo, which doubles as a qualifying competition for the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games.

Kuo won a gold medal with a snatch lift of 106kg in the women’s 59kg division, breaking the world record of 105kg she set at last year’s AWC tournament.

She then clinched a second gold with a clean and jerk of 137kg, breaking the record of 136kg set by Chen Guiming (陳桂明) from China last year, with a final gold for the combined lift of 243kg, which broke her own world record of 237kg also set last year.

This is the third time Kuo has clinched three golds at the AWC tournament, having done so in 2013 and in 2017, for a grand total of 11 gold medals at the event.  [FULL  STORY]

Taipei Times
Date: Apr 24, 2019
By: Staff writer, with CNA

Cheng Chao-tsun on Monday won Taiwan’s first gold medal at the Asian Athletics

Championships in Doha, Qatar, with a meeting record in the javelin.

Cheng took gold by setting an Asian Athletics Championships record with a throw of 86.72m, edging out Shivpal Singh of India, who registered a distance of 86.23m.

The gold medal performance qualified Cheng for a spot in the World Athletics Championships to be held in Doha in late September.

Huang Shi-feng almost made it two medals for Taiwan in the event, finishing fourth with a throw of 81.46m, just behind bronze medalist Ryohei Arai of Japan’s 81.93m.   [FULL  STORY]

Emerges from packed leaderboard to win by one shot at Harbour Town Golf Links

Taiwan News
Date: 2019/04/22
By:  Associated Press

HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. (AP) — Pan Cheng-tsung (潘政琮) took advantage of Dustin Johnson’s back-nine struggles to win the RBC Heritage for his first PGA TOUR victory on April 21, local time.

The 27-year-old Pan, from Taiwan, closed with a 4-under 67 on Sunday at Harbour Town Golf Links for a one-stroke victory over Matt Kuchar. Pan finished at 12-under 272.

“It’s still really hard for me to believe,” he said. “I’m processing. My phone has been vibrating the last 10 minutes. I’m so happy I finally got it done.”

Johnson, the third-round leader in his home-state event, had a 77 to tie for 28th at 4 under. He played a five-hole stretch in 7 over, making bogeys on Nos. 11-13 and double bogeys on Nos. 14-15.    [FULL  STORY]