Tien Shiau-wen
 Tien Shiau-wen | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Country |  Chinese Taipei | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Para table tennis | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Disability class | D20 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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Tien Shiau-wen (Chinese: 田曉雯; born 14 December 1999) is a Taiwanese table tennis player.
Personal life
[edit]Tien was born in Kaohsiung on 14 December 1999,[1] and was raised on Liuqiu Island.[2] The nerves in her right hand were damaged at birth, and she was bullied by classmates who noticed that she had limited use of that hand.[3] Tien began playing table tennis at the age of nine.[4]
Career
[edit]She won two silver medals at the 2018 Asian Para Games, in the individual table tennis competition for class 10, and the women's class 8–10 team event alongside Lin Tzu-yu.[5] At the 2020 Summer Paralympics, Tien medaled in the Class 10 individual women's table tennis, winning bronze.[6][7]
References
[edit]- ^ "TIEN Shiau Wen". Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 29 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ 林, 和生 (28 August 2021). "帕運桌球田曉雯奪銅 屏東縣長第一時間祝福". China Times (in Chinese). Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ 路, 皓惟 (28 August 2021). "田曉雯出生右手萎縮曾遭霸凌 「克服心魔」首次帕運就摘銅" (in Chinese). ETToday. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "帕運／右手萎縮！田曉雯「差點摔斷牙」 苦練13年拚出黃金左手". EBC News. 18 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ 劉, 肇育 (28 August 2021). "帕運／田曉雯四強賽敗北 仍為我國進帳首面獎牌". United Daily News. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ Liu, Kay; Lung, Po-an (28 August 2021). "Taiwan bags first medal at Tokyo Paralympics". Central News Agency. Retrieved 31 August 2021. Republished as: "Tokyo Paralympics: Taiwan earn first medal at Tokyo Games". Taipei Times. 29 August 2021. Retrieved 31 August 2021.
- ^ "Table Tennis Results Book" (PDF). Tokyo 2020 Paralympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original (PDF) on 3 September 2021. Retrieved 9 September 2021.
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- 1999 births
- Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Paralympics
- Table tennis players at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Medalists at the 2024 Summer Paralympics
- Living people
- Paralympic bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Sportspeople from Kaohsiung
- People from Pingtung County
- Paralympic table tennis players for Chinese Taipei
- Taiwanese female table tennis players
- 21st-century Taiwanese women
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Para Games
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Para Games
- Asian table tennis biography stubs
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