Hsu Tung-hsiung
Taiwanese swimmer
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Hsu Tung-hsiung (born 20 December 1954) is a Taiwanese sports official and former swimmer. He won bronze medals in four events at the 1970 Asian Games, and competed in four events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.[1][2]
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| Born | 20 December 1954 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| Traditional Chinese | 許東雄 |
| Hanyu Pinyin | Xǔ Dōngxióng |
Hsu was born in Taitung, and moved to Kaohsiung at the age of 12.[3] Nicknamed "the iron man of swimming", as late as the 1980s he held thirteen national records in swimming.[2] He later became the Dean of Student Affairs at Taipei Physical Education College, and in 2006 began pursuing PhD at Soochow University in mainland China.[4] He was elected president of the Chinese Taipei Swimming Association in May 2011.[5] He is the father of Hsu Chi-chieh, who also became an Olympic swimmer for Taiwan.[6]
