Team Taiwan records highest gold medal haul in 20 years at Asian Games
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/09/03
By: Keoni Everington, Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) — Team Taiwan hauled in 17 gold medals at the 2018 Asian
Members of Taiwan’s dragon boat team. (By Central News Agency)
Games, the most in 20 years and the second most ever.
By the close of the 2018 Asian Games yesterday (Sept. 2), Taiwan’s final medal tally stood at 17 gold, 19 silver and 31 bronze, giving the country a seventh-place finish on the medal table. The 17 gold medals were the most earned by Taiwan since the 1998 Asian Games in Bangkok, when the team won 19 gold medals.
This year’s team made great achievements in gymnastics, badminton and archery. In track and field, “Taiwan’s fastest man” Yang Chun-han (楊俊瀚) captured the silver in the men’s 200-meter dash, and barely missed out on gold by one thousandth of a second.
Yang’s silver in the men’s 200-meter dash marks the first medal in the event in the history of Taiwan’s team. [FULL STORY]
