Jiang Lin (; born 23 October 1981 in

Qingdao Qingdao (, also spelled Tsingtao; , Mandarin: ) is a major city in eastern Shandong Province. The city's name in Chinese characters literally means " azure island". Located on China's Yellow Sea coast, it is a major nodal city of the One Belt ...

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) is a male archer from the People's Republic of China.

2008 Summer Olympics

At the

2008 Summer Olympics The 2008 Summer Olympics (), officially the Games of the XXIX Olympiad () and also known as Beijing 2008 (), were an international multisport event held from 8 to 24 August 2008, in Beijing, China. A total of 10,942 athletes from 204 Na ...

in Beijing, Jiang finished his ranking round with a total of 632 points. This gave him the 55th seed for the final competition bracket in which he faced Lee Chang-Hwan in the first round. Lee won the confrontation with 112-108 and would eventually be beaten in the third round.Athlete biography: Jiang Lin
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug, 17 2008 Together with Li Wenquan and

Xue Haifeng Xue Haifeng (, born January 13, 1980, in Ili, Xinjiang, People's Republic of China) is an archer from the People's Republic of China. 2004 Summer Olympics Xue competed for China at the 2004 Summer Olympics in men's individual archery. He w ...

, Jiang also took part in the team event. With his 632 score from the ranking round combined with the 646 of Li and the 663 of Xue the Chinese were in 12th and last position after the ranking round. However, in the first round they were too strong for the British team 214-210. They advanced to the semi-final by eliminating Russia 217-209, but lost against South Korea 221-218. In the bronze medal match China was too strong for the team from Ukraine, beating them 222-219 to claim the bronze.

References

Major achievements

''Recurve Men'' category *44 th world Outdoor Target Archery Championships 07.07.2007 Leipzig, Germany: Position 22 *World Archery Cup, Stage 1 01.04.2007 Ulsan, Korea: Position 31 *Meteksan World Cup Stage 4 27.09.2006 Shanghai, PR China: Position 8 *Meteksan World Cup Stage 1- EMAU Grand Prix 10.05.2006 Porec, Croatia: Position 20

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2007 International Archery Tournament 1981 births Living people Archers at the 2008 Summer Olympics Chinese male archers Olympic archers for China Olympic bronze medalists for China Sportspeople from Qingdao Olympic medalists in archery Medalists at the 2008 Summer Olympics 21st-century Chinese people {{PRChina-archery-bio-stub