Huang Chih-hsiung

Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner
黃志雄
Member of the Legislative YuanIn office
1 February 2008 – 1 February 2016Preceded byConstituency createdSucceeded bySu Chiao-huiConstituencyNew Taipei 5 Personal detailsBorn (1976-10-16) October 16, 1976 (age 47)
Taipei County, TaiwanPolitical partyKuomintangSports careerSportTaekwondo
Medal record
Men’s taekwondo
Representing  Chinese Taipei
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2004 Athens 68 kg
Bronze medal – third place 2000 Sydney 58 kg
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 2003 Garmisch Bantamweight
Gold medal – first place 1997 Hong Kong Bantamweight
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Manila Bantamweight
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Bantamweight
Chinese nameTraditional Chinese黃志雄Hanyu PinyinHuáng Zhìxióng
Transcriptions
Standard Mandarin
Hanyu PinyinHuáng Zhìxióng

Huang Chih-hsiung (Chinese: 黃志雄; pinyin: Húang Zhìxióng; born 16 October 1976 in Taipei County (now New Taipei City), Taiwan) is a Taiwanese athlete. Representing Taiwan (as Chinese Taipei) in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal at the Men's 68 kg Taekwondo event. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal at the Men's 58 kg Taekwondo event.

Political careers

2004 legislative election

Huang was placed third on the Kuomintang's legislators-at-large candidate list for the December 2004 legislative election, just behind Legislative Speaker Wang Jing-pyng and Deputy Legislative Speaker Chiang Pin-kung, and he subsequently won a seat in the sixth Legislative Yuan.

2008 legislative election

He was subsequently re-elected in the January 2008 legislative election, earning a place in the seventh Legislative Yuan.

No. Candidate Party Votes Ratio Elected
1 Wun Bing Yuan (溫炳原) Green Party Taiwan 507 0.43%
2 Chen Cheng Jyun (陳誠鈞) Independent 154 0.13%
3 Wang Wun Siou (王文秀) Home Party 338 0.29%
4 Huang Chih-hsiung Kuomintang 61,948 52.32% Yes
5 Liao Pen-yen Democratic Progressive Party 55,444 46.83%

2016 legislative election

Legislative Election 2016: New Taipei 5th district
Party Candidate Votes % ±%
DPP Su Chiao-hui 92,237 56.11
Kuomintang Huang Chih-hsiung 67,014 40.77
NPP Kuo Po-yu 5,130 3.12
Majority 25,223 15.34
Total valid votes 164,381 98.83
Rejected ballots 1,940 1.17
DPP gain from Kuomintang Swing
Turnout 166,321 68.16
Registered electors 244,030

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World Champions in Taekwondo – Men's Bantamweight
  • 1975:  Son Tae-hwan (KOR)
  • 1977:  Kim Yong-ki (KOR)
  • 1979:  Kim Yong-ki (KOR)
  • 1982:  Kim Yong-ki (KOR)
  • 1983:  Han Hong-sik (KOR)
  • 1985:  Yoo Myung-sik (KOR)
  • 1987:  Yoo Myung-sik (KOR)
  • 1989:  Ham Jun (KOR)
  • 1991:  Ángel Alonso (ESP)
  • 1993:  Kim In-young (KOR)
  • 1995:  Chang Dae-soon (KOR)
  • 1997:  Huang Chih-hsiung (TPE)
  • 1999:  Ko Dae-kyu (KOR)
  • 2001:  Kang Nam-won (KOR)
  • 2003:  Huang Chih-hsiung (TPE)
  • 2005:  Kim Jae-sik (KOR)
  • 2007:  Filip Grgić (CRO)
  • 2009:  Yeom Hyo-seob (KOR)
  • 2011:  Lee Dae-hoon (KOR)
  • 2013:  Lee Dae-hoon (KOR)
  • 2015: Jaouad Achab (WTF)
  • 2017:  Zhao Shuai (CHN)
  • 2019:  Zhao Shuai (CHN)
  • 2022:  Liang Yushuai (CHN)
  • 2023:  Hakan Reçber (TUR)
  • 1975–1977: −58 kg
  • 1979–1983: −56 kg
  • 1985–1997: −58 kg
  • 1999–2007: −62 kg
  • 2009–present: −63 kg