Tokyo Olympians – Chinese Taipei’s AIBA Women’s World Champion Huang Hsiao Wen

The Tokyo Olympic Games is ahead of us the re-scheduled event will be held in Japan between July 23 and August 8. The Asian Boxing Confederation introduces our quota holders firstly the women boxers who qualified already to Tokyo through the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event which was held in Amman, Jordan on March 2020.

Chinese Taipei’s Huang Hsiao Wen was born in Taipei City on August 31 in 1997 and began boxing at the age of 12 in 2009. She trains with coach Mr. Liu Chung Tai at the Fu Jen Catholic University in Taipei City. Her number of training hours per week is 27 and she has already 120 contest during her career.

Huang Hsiao Wen won her first event, the National President’s Cup for the junior high school boxers in 2011 and joined to the national team two years later and attended at the Albena 2013 AIBA Women’s Junior World Boxing Championships. She qualified for the Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games and claimed silver at the Taipei 2015 AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships.

As an elite boxer, she competed at the flyweight (51kg), at the bantamweight (54kg) and also at the featherweight (57kg) in the recent five years. Huang claimed bronze medals at the Ho Chi Minh City 2017 ASBC Asian Women’s Boxing Championships and also at the Jakarta 2018 Asian Games.

Chinese Taipei’s Chen Nien Chin and Lin Yu Ting claimed gold medals in the New Delhi 2018 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships and their third star Huang Hsiao Wen reached the top of the podium in the last Ulan-Ude edition on October 2019. Huang advanced to the final of the bantamweight (54kg) at the Ulan-Ude 2019 AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships where she used her height advantage and kept her opponents on long.

Huang eliminated India’s new sensation Jamuna Boro in the semi-final and met for the gold with France’s Caroline Cruveillier who has the similar style of boxing. Huang was a hard target for the EUBC European U22 Champion French boxer and her long distance tactic paid off in the day of the finals. Huang reached her career highlight in Ulan-Ude with that gold medal but following that she moved down to the flyweight (51kg) to get the Olympic quota.

Huang Hsiao Wen arrived to Xiamen as the biggest name of the 2019 ASBC Asian Grand Slam Boxing Championships. She used her longer reach against Tajikistan’s Farida Samieva which was clear dominancy in the first two rounds. Following the second knock down, the Tajik ringside abandoned the fight and Huang continued her winning path.

Huang qualified for the Tokyo Olympic Games through the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event which was held in Amman on March 2020 where she earned bronze medal following two successes over Australian and Uzbek rivals.

Personal biography
Name: Huang Hsiao Wen
Country : Chinese Taipei
Gender : Woman
Date of birth : 31/08/1997
Height : 177cm
Weight category : 51kg
Residence : Taipei
Stance : Orthodox
Best achievements:
2020 – Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event (Amman, JOR) – Bronze
2019 – ASBC Asian Grand Slam Boxing Championships (Xiamen, CHN) – Gold
2019 – AIBA Women’s World Boxing Championships (Ulan-Ude, RUS) – Gold
2019 – ASBC Asian Women’s Boxing Championships (Bangkok, THA) – Silver
2018 – Jakarta 2018 Asian Games (Jakarta, INA) – Bronze
2017 – ASBC Asian Women’s Boxing Championships (Ho Chi Minh City, VIE) – Bronze
2015 – AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships (Taipei, TPE) – Silver
2014 – Nanjing 2014 Youth Olympic Games (Nanjing, CHN) – 6th place
2014 – AIBA Women’s Youth World Boxing Championships (Sofia, BUL) – 5th place

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