Lin Shih-chia

Lin Shih-chia (Chinese: 林詩嘉; pinyin: Lín Shījiā; born 20 May 1993) is a Taiwanese competitive archer.[1] She has won a career total of four medals (one gold, two silver, and one bronze) in a major international competition, spanning the Summer Universiade, the World Championships, and the Summer Olympics.

Lin Shih-chia

Personal information
Full name	Lin Shih-chia
Born	(1993-05-20) 20 May 1993 Hsinchu, Taiwan
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Weight	57 kg (126 lb)
Sport
Country	Chinese Taipei
Sport	Archery
Event(s)	Recurve
Medal record Women's archery Representing Chinese Taipei Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro Team World Championships 2015 Copenhagen Individual 2015 Copenhagen Mixed team 2017 Mexico Team Universiade 2015 Gwangju Team
Updated on 22 February 2017.

Lin rose to prominence in the global archery scene at the 2015 Summer Universiade in Gwangju, South Korea. There, she confidently took out the slick South Korean women from the final match 5–3 to hand the trio of Hsiung Mei-chien and London 2012 Olympian Tan Ya-ting a gold-medal triumph in the team recurve tournament.[2][3]

Shortly after the Universiade, Lin continued to build her success in the sport by adding two more medals to her career treasury, a silver each in the individual and mixed team recurve, at the World Championships in Copenhagen, Denmark.[4]

Lin was selected to compete for Chinese Taipei's archery squad at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, shooting in both individual and team recurve tournaments.[5] Two months before her maiden Games, she commanded the Chinese Taipei trio in defeating the Estonian side for one of three women's team spaces at the World Archery Cup meet in Antalya, Turkey.[6] Lin opened the tournament by discharging 651 points, 15 perfect tens, and 6 bull's eyes to seal the ninth seed against a field of 63 other archers in the classification round, along with her trio's cumulative score of 1,932.[7] Sitting outside of the top three at fourth position in the team recurve, Lin and her compatriots Tan and Le Chien-ying bounced back from their semifinal defeat to the eventual champions South Korea to secure a 5–3 triumph over the Italian women for the bronze medal.[8][9] In the women's individual recurve, Lin successfully held off a spirited challenge by Egypt's Reem Mansour in the opening round, before she faced a 2–6 defeat in her subsequent match from the unheralded Indian Bombayla Devi Laishram.[10][11]

References

1. "Lin Shih-chia". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
2. "Meet the team: the formidable Chinese Taipei recurve women". World Archery. 10 May 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
3. "Lin Wan-ting wins gold in Universiade tae kwon do women's 46-kg contest". The China Post. 10 July 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
4. "Ki Bo Bae adds world champion title to collection". World Archery. 2 August 2015. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
5. "里約奧運射箭名單出爐　男子3人全新出擊" [Three rookies were named to the men's archery team for the Rio Olympics] (in Chinese). Taiwan: Apple Daily. 26 February 2016. Retrieved 15 June 2016.
6. "6 teams claim Rio 2016 berths at final world qualifier". World Archery Federation. 16 June 2016. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
7. "奧運射箭女團 教練：預期成績沒出來" [Olympic team archery coach: "Expected results did not come out"] (in Chinese). Radio Taiwan International. 6 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
8. "Archery: Women's Team Bronze Medal Match". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
9. "Olympics: Taiwan wins first medals in Rio". Taiwan: Central News Agency. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.
10. "Archery: Women's Individual Round of 32". Rio 2016. Archived from the original on 26 August 2016. Retrieved 18 February 2017.
11. "Olympics archery: Bombayla Devi Laishram cruises through to the pre-quarterfinals". Scroll.in. 10 August 2016. Retrieved 26 February 2017.

External links

• Lin Shih-chia at the World Archery Federation