Taiwan has picked up two more medals at the Tokyo Olympics, bringing the country’s total to four.
The first medal for Taiwan on Monday came in men’s archery. Taiwan’s men’s team won silver, tying the nation’s previous top performance in that event at the 2004 games in Athens.
In the archery final on Monday, the team from South Korea beat the Taiwanese archers 6-0, shooting perfect 10s on 13 out of 18 arrows.
Taiwan’s second win of the day came in table tennis. The world’s number one-ranked mixed table tennis pair, Lin Yun-ju and Cheng I-ching, beat their French opponents, Emmanuel Lebesson and Yuan Jia-nan, 11-8, 11-7, 11-8, 11-5 in 38 minutes to clinch the bronze.
It was Taiwan’s first table tennis medal in 21 years. The last Taiwanese athlete to win an Olympic medal in table tennis was Chen Jing. She picked up the bronze in women's singles at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.
The archery and table tennis wins bring the Olympic medal count for Taiwan’s team – known as “Chinese Taipei” – to two silver medals and two bronze medals.
Taiwan’s first medal came on Saturday — a silver medal for Yang Yung-wei in the men’s 60-kg judo competition. He defeated a French competitor in the semifinals earlier in the day, but then lost in the finals to Japanese athlete Naohisa Takato.
Yang, from the indigenous Paiwan people, is the first Taiwanese athlete to win an Olympic medal in judo.
Then on Sunday, Taiwan’s team picked up a second medal at the games — this time it was Lo Chia-ling in the women’s 57-kg taekwondo competition.
President Tsai Ing-wen lauded the athletes’ successes in a Facebook post on Sunday night. She has thanked the team for giving Taiwan another moving day of athletic achievements.
Taiwan has 68 athletes competing in 18 events at the Tokyo Olympics.
Taekwondo is Taiwan’s top sport at the Olympics. The country has won nine medals in taekwondo since 2000, when the sport became a part of the Olympic Games.