Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee

Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee

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Country/Region	Chinese Taipei
Code	TPE
Created	April 3, 1922
Recognized	1922 (as China) Jan 1, 1960 (as ROC)
Continental Association	OCA
Headquarters	No 20 Chu Lun Street, Zhongshan District, Taipei City, Republic of China
President	Lin Hong-dow
Secretary General	Jacqueline Yi-Ting Shen
Website	www.tpenoc.net

Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (CTOC, IOC code: TPE; Chinese: 中華奧林匹克委員會; literally: "Chinese Olympic Committee") is the National Olympic Committee representing Republic of China.

The China National Amateur Athletic Federation (中華業餘運動聯合會) was established on April 3, 1922. Later on the same year, International Olympic Committee recolonized the Federation as the Chinese Olympic Committee (中國奧林匹克委員會) and Wang Jheng-ting (王正廷), the president of the Committee, was elected as the member of the International Olympic Committee during the 22nd IOC Sessions which were hosted in Paris, France.

China National Amateur Athletic Federation was reorganized on Aug 24, 1924 in Shanghai, the name of the Federation remained the same in English but in Chinese. The Federation attended the opening ceremony of the Paris Olympics but did not attend the race and no athletes were sent to attend the Amsterdam Olympics. The Federation used the name of "China" and the only athlete Liu Changchun competed in the Olympic Games in 1932 which was hosted in Los Angeles, United States of America.

The Headquarter of the Federation was moved from Nanking to Taipei City and renamed as Chinese Olympic Committee, National Amateur Athletic Federation as approved by the International Olympic Committee due to the Federation lettered to IOC that there was 19 members out of 26 moved to Taiwan with the Government in 1951. The Olympic Committee won the first Olympic medalist in the country's history by the Taiwanese aborigines athlete Yang Chuan-kwang during the Rome Olympics.