Yang Chuan-kwang
Japanese Taiwan | |
Died | January 27, 2007 Los Angeles, California, US | (aged 73)
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Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Decathlon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal bests |
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Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (
Early life
Yang played baseball at the Taitung Agricultural School and was coached by former Kano baseball team player Chen Keng-yuan in the 1940s.[2]
Career
Known as the "Iron Man of Asia,"[3] Yang won the decathlon event at the 1954 and 1958 Asian Games, as well as silver medals in the 110 m hurdles and long jump and the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles. At the 1956 Summer Olympics he placed eighth in the decathlon. He also competed in the high jump.[1]
Yang's most memorable decathlon competition was a decathlon duel with
In 1963, Yang set a world indoor record in the
Yang placed fifth in the decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[6]
He appeared in a number of films, including Walk, Don't Run (1966),[7] as well as the 1970 western There Was a Crooked Man... as a tough inmate named Ah-Ping who did not speak.[citation needed]
Later career and death
Yang served in the Legislative Yuan from 1983 to 1986 as a member of the Kuomintang representing what became the Lowland Aborigine Constituency. He later spoke in support of the Democratic Progressive Party.[8]
After Yang's retirement from athletics, he worked as a trainer and supervisor at the National Sports Training Center in Zuoying, where Ku Chin-shui and Lee Fu-an were trained. After that, Yang converted to Taoism from Christianity, and served as a Taoist priest and a Tangki in a Taoist temple in his native place for 20 years.[9]
Yang was a member of the
See also
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yang C. K." Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ Morris, Andrew (2015). Colonial Project, National Game: A History of Baseball in Taiwan. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. 79.
- ^ Han Cheung (August 30, 2015). "An Olympic summer to remember". Taipei Times. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ^ Today in History. rti.org.tw (January 26, 2007)
- IAAF. 2009. pp. 546, 559–60, 649. Archived from the original(PDF) on August 6, 2009. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Decathlon". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (January 30, 2007). "C.K. Yang, 74; decathlete won Taiwan's 1st Olympic medal at 1960 Rome Games". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ISBN 9789004221543.
- ^ Yeh, Joseph (September 9, 2009). "The Life and Legend of Taiwan's first Olympic medalist "Asian Iron Man" C.K. Yang". Culture Taiwan. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ "C. K. Yang, 74, Decathlon Silver Medalist, Is Dead". The New York Times. Associated Press. February 1, 2007. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
External links
- The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960: Official Report of the Organizing Committee, The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, 1960.
- Volume 1, Yang's entry and vital statistics in the List of Athletes, p. 832
- Volume 2 Part 1, results and nine photographs of Yang during and after the decathlon competition, pp. 160–178
- Database Olympics
- UCLA notice about C.K. Yang's death Archived February 3, 2007, at the Wayback Machine
- Asian Iron Man: Yang Chuan-kuang dies of illness[permanent dead link], Apple Daily, January 29, 2007 (in Chinese)
- Chuan-Kwang Yang at Olympics.com