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 ...
,
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
) 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.
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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
External links
Profile2007 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
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