Kan Chia-wei
Appearance
Chia-wei against Omari Jones in 2024 | |||||||||||||||
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| Born | 10 January 1998 Xinyi, Nantou, Taiwan | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 5 ft 9 in (175 cm) | ||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Boxing | ||||||||||||||
| Welterweight, Light-middleweight | |||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Kan Chia-wei (Chinese: 甘家葳; born 10 January 1998) is a Taiwanese boxer. He won the silver medal in the 71kg division at the delayed 2022 Asian Games after being unable to take part in the final due to a facial injury sustained in his semi-final bout.[1][2] Kan represented his country at the 2024 Summer Olympics, losing in the 71kg category round-of-16 to eventual bronze medalist Omari Jones from the United States.[3]
References
[edit]- ↑ "Taiwan's Kan out of gold medal bout". taipeitimes.com.
- ↑ "Boxers Kan Chia-wei, Lai Chun-en clinch silver at Asian Games". FTV News.
- ↑ "OLYMPICS/Boxer Kan vows to 'rise again' despite elimination in Paris Olympics". Focus Taiwan.
Categories:
- Living people
- 1998 births
- Taiwanese male boxers
- 21st-century Taiwanese sportsmen
- Light-middleweight boxers
- Welterweight boxers
- Sportspeople from Nantou County
- Boxers at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for Chinese Taipei
- Medalists at the 2022 Asian Games
- Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games silver medalists in boxing
- Boxers at the 2024 Summer Olympics
- Olympic boxers for Taiwan
- Asian boxing biography stubs
- Taiwanese martial arts biography stubs