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==Biography== |
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Known as the "Iron Man of Asia,"<ref>{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=An Olympic summer to remember |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2015/08/30/2003626509 | |
Known as the "Iron Man of Asia,"<ref>{{cite news |author1=Han Cheung |title=An Olympic summer to remember |url=http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/feat/archives/2015/08/30/2003626509 |access-date=August 26, 2018 |work=Taipei Times |date=August 30, 2015}}</ref> Yang won the decathlon event at the 1954 and 1958 Asian Games, as well as silver medals in the [[110 metres hurdles|110 m hurdles]] and [[long jump]] and the bronze medal in the [[400 metres hurdles|400 m hurdles]]. At the [[1956 Summer Olympics]] he placed eighth in the decathlon. He also competed in the [[Athletics at the 1956 Summer Olympics – Men's high jump|high jump]].<ref name=sr/> |
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Yang's most memorable decathlon competition was a decathlon duel with [[Rafer Johnson]], his friend and teammate at [[University of California at Los Angeles]], during the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] in [[Rome]]. The lead swung back and forth between them. Finally, after nine events, Johnson led Yang by a small margin, but Yang was known to be better in the final event, the 1500 m. According to The Telegraph (UK), "legend has it" that Drake gave coaching to both men, with him advising Johnson to stay close to Yang and be ready for "a hellish sprint" at the end, and advising Yang to put as much distance between himself and Johnson before the final sprint as possible. Johnson ran his personal best at 4:49.7 and finished just 1.2 sec slower than Yang, winning the gold by 58 points with an Olympic record total of 8,392 points. Both athletes were exhausted and drained and came to a stop a few paces past the finish line leaning against each other for support. Yang was the first Olympic medallist in his country's history.<ref name=sr/> |
Yang's most memorable decathlon competition was a decathlon duel with [[Rafer Johnson]], his friend and teammate at [[University of California at Los Angeles]], during the [[1960 Summer Olympics]] in [[Rome]]. The lead swung back and forth between them. Finally, after nine events, Johnson led Yang by a small margin, but Yang was known to be better in the final event, the 1500 m. According to The Telegraph (UK), "legend has it" that Drake gave coaching to both men, with him advising Johnson to stay close to Yang and be ready for "a hellish sprint" at the end, and advising Yang to put as much distance between himself and Johnson before the final sprint as possible. Johnson ran his personal best at 4:49.7 and finished just 1.2 sec slower than Yang, winning the gold by 58 points with an Olympic record total of 8,392 points. Both athletes were exhausted and drained and came to a stop a few paces past the finish line leaning against each other for support. Yang was the first Olympic medallist in his country's history.<ref name=sr/> |
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In 1963, Yang set a world indoor record in the [[pole vault]] at {{T&Fcalc|4.96}} in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], just one day after [[David Tork]] had set the record at {{T&Fcalc|4.93}} in [[Toronto]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070517220230/http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?ContentID=30165 Today in History]. rti.org.tw (January 26, 2007)</ref> His record only lasted a week. Later that year he finally took the [[Decathlon world record progression|decathlon world record]] from Johnson at the [[Mt. SAC Relays]], coached by William Neufeld. He was the first man to break the 9,000 barrier under the old scale. When the new tables were re-evaluated, this same score was the first to break 8,000 points under the new system. To date, he is the only athlete not from the United States or Europe to hold the decathlon world record.<ref name=iaaf>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf |title=12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook |location=Berlin |year=2009 |pages=546, 559–60, 649 |publisher=[[IAAF]] | |
In 1963, Yang set a world indoor record in the [[pole vault]] at {{T&Fcalc|4.96}} in [[Portland, Oregon|Portland]], just one day after [[David Tork]] had set the record at {{T&Fcalc|4.93}} in [[Toronto]].<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20070517220230/http://english.rti.org.tw/Content/GetSingleNews.aspx?ContentID=30165 Today in History]. rti.org.tw (January 26, 2007)</ref> His record only lasted a week. Later that year he finally took the [[Decathlon world record progression|decathlon world record]] from Johnson at the [[Mt. SAC Relays]], coached by William Neufeld. He was the first man to break the 9,000 barrier under the old scale. When the new tables were re-evaluated, this same score was the first to break 8,000 points under the new system. To date, he is the only athlete not from the United States or Europe to hold the decathlon world record.<ref name=iaaf>{{cite web|url=http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf |title=12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook |location=Berlin |year=2009 |pages=546, 559–60, 649 |publisher=[[IAAF]] |access-date=7 May 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090806172743/http://www.iaaf.org/mm/document/competitions/competition/05/15/63/20090706014834_httppostedfile_p345-688_11303.pdf |archive-date=6 August 2009 }}</ref> |
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Yang placed fifth in the decathlon at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ATH/mens-decathlon.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175524/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ATH/mens-decathlon.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Decathlon | |
Yang placed fifth in the decathlon at the [[1964 Summer Olympics]].<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ATH/mens-decathlon.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200417175524/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/summer/1964/ATH/mens-decathlon.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=17 April 2020 |title=Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Decathlon |access-date=26 January 2018 |work=sports-reference.com}}</ref> |
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He appeared in a number of films, including ''[[Walk, Don't Run]]'' (1966),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dillman |first1=Lisa |title=C.K. Yang, 74; decathlete won Taiwan's 1st Olympic medal at 1960 Rome Games |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-30-me-yang30-story.html | |
He appeared in a number of films, including ''[[Walk, Don't Run]]'' (1966),<ref>{{cite news |last1=Dillman |first1=Lisa |title=C.K. Yang, 74; decathlete won Taiwan's 1st Olympic medal at 1960 Rome Games |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-30-me-yang30-story.html |access-date=January 24, 2020 |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 30, 2007}}</ref> as well as the 1970 western ''[[There Was a Crooked Man...]]'' as a tough inmate named Ah-Ping who did not speak.{{cn|date=January 2020}} |
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Yang served in the [[Legislative Yuan]] from 1983 to 1986 as a member of the [[Kuomintang]] representing what became the [[Lowland Aborigine Constituency]]. He later spoke in support of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jacobs |first1=J. Bruce | |
Yang served in the [[Legislative Yuan]] from 1983 to 1986 as a member of the [[Kuomintang]] representing what became the [[Lowland Aborigine Constituency]]. He later spoke in support of the [[Democratic Progressive Party]].<ref>{{cite book |last1=Jacobs |first1=J. Bruce |author-link1=J. Bruce Jacobs |title=Democratizing Taiwan |date=2012 |publisher=Brill |isbn=9789004221543 |page=162 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MAU9JjMcfsQC&pg=PA162}}</ref> |
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After Yang's retirement from athletics, he worked as a trainer and supervisor of National Sports Training Center in [[Zuoying]], where [[Ku Chin-shui]] and [[Lee Fu-an]] were trained. After that, Yang, a Taoist convert from Christianity, worked as a priest and a [[Tongji (spirit medium)|Tongji]] in a Taoist temple in his native place for 20 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1368&Itemid=157 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216003810/http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1368&Itemid=157 |archive-date=2010-02-16 |url-status=dead |title=The Life and Legend of Taiwan's first Olympic medalist "Asian Iron Man" C.K. Yang |date=9 September 2009 |first=Joseph |last=Yeh |website=Culture Taiwan |access-date=2020-01-28 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
After Yang's retirement from athletics, he worked as a trainer and supervisor of National Sports Training Center in [[Zuoying]], where [[Ku Chin-shui]] and [[Lee Fu-an]] were trained. After that, Yang, a Taoist convert from Christianity, worked as a priest and a [[Tongji (spirit medium)|Tongji]] in a Taoist temple in his native place for 20 years.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1368&Itemid=157 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100216003810/http://www.culture.tw/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1368&Itemid=157 |archive-date=2010-02-16 |url-status=dead |title=The Life and Legend of Taiwan's first Olympic medalist "Asian Iron Man" C.K. Yang |date=9 September 2009 |first=Joseph |last=Yeh |website=Culture Taiwan |access-date=2020-01-28 |df=mdy-all}}</ref> |
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Yang was a member of the [[Amis people|Amis]], one of the fourteen officially recognized peoples of [[Taiwanese aborigines]]. He had a wife, Daisy, and two sons: Cedric Yang (Yang Sui-yuen) and C.K. Yang Jr. and three grandchildren: Madison Yang, Carmen Yang, and Dorothy Yang. In 2001, while serving as president of the National Sports Training Center at [[Kaohsiung]], Yang was diagnosed with [[liver cancer]]. He died in 2007 from a massive stroke.<ref>{{cite news|agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/sports/othersports/01yang.html |title=C. K. Yang, 74, Decathlon Silver Medalist, Is Dead |work=The New York Times |date=February 1, 2007 | |
Yang was a member of the [[Amis people|Amis]], one of the fourteen officially recognized peoples of [[Taiwanese aborigines]]. He had a wife, Daisy, and two sons: Cedric Yang (Yang Sui-yuen) and C.K. Yang Jr. and three grandchildren: Madison Yang, Carmen Yang, and Dorothy Yang. In 2001, while serving as president of the National Sports Training Center at [[Kaohsiung]], Yang was diagnosed with [[liver cancer]]. He died in 2007 from a massive stroke.<ref>{{cite news|agency=[[Associated Press]] |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/sports/othersports/01yang.html |title=C. K. Yang, 74, Decathlon Silver Medalist, Is Dead |work=The New York Times |date=February 1, 2007 |access-date=February 15, 2012}}</ref> He is buried in Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in [[Ventura, California]].<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/23996912 |title=Chuan-Kwang "C. K." Yang (1933–2007) – Find A Grave Memorial |publisher=Findagrave.com |access-date=February 15, 2012}}</ref> |
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==See also== |
==See also== |
Revision as of 15:59, 5 January 2021
Personal information | |
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Born | Taitung, Japanese Taiwan | July 10, 1933
Died | January 27, 2007 Los Angeles, California, USA | (aged 73)
Height | 186 cm (6 ft 1 in) |
Weight | 80 kg (176 lb) |
Sport | |
Sport | Athletics |
Event | Decathlon |
Achievements and titles | |
Personal best(s) | HJ – 2.02 m (1956) PV – 5.00 m (1963) Decathlon – 8089/(9121) (1963) |
Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (Amis: Maysang Kalimud, Chinese: 楊傳廣; pinyin: Yáng Chuánguǎng) (July 10, 1933 – January 27, 2007), was an Olympic decathlete from Taiwan.[1] Yang attended college at UCLA where he trained and competed with team mate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and was coached by Elvin C. Drake.
Biography
Known as the "Iron Man of Asia,"[2] Yang won the decathlon event at the 1954 and 1958 Asian Games, as well as silver medals in the 110 m hurdles and long jump and the bronze medal in the 400 m hurdles. At the 1956 Summer Olympics he placed eighth in the decathlon. He also competed in the high jump.[1]
Yang's most memorable decathlon competition was a decathlon duel with Rafer Johnson, his friend and teammate at University of California at Los Angeles, during the 1960 Summer Olympics in Rome. The lead swung back and forth between them. Finally, after nine events, Johnson led Yang by a small margin, but Yang was known to be better in the final event, the 1500 m. According to The Telegraph (UK), "legend has it" that Drake gave coaching to both men, with him advising Johnson to stay close to Yang and be ready for "a hellish sprint" at the end, and advising Yang to put as much distance between himself and Johnson before the final sprint as possible. Johnson ran his personal best at 4:49.7 and finished just 1.2 sec slower than Yang, winning the gold by 58 points with an Olympic record total of 8,392 points. Both athletes were exhausted and drained and came to a stop a few paces past the finish line leaning against each other for support. Yang was the first Olympic medallist in his country's history.[1]
In 1963, Yang set a world indoor record in the pole vault at 4.96 m (16 ft 3+1⁄4 in) in Portland, just one day after David Tork had set the record at 4.93 m (16 ft 2 in) in Toronto.[3] His record only lasted a week. Later that year he finally took the decathlon world record from Johnson at the Mt. SAC Relays, coached by William Neufeld. He was the first man to break the 9,000 barrier under the old scale. When the new tables were re-evaluated, this same score was the first to break 8,000 points under the new system. To date, he is the only athlete not from the United States or Europe to hold the decathlon world record.[4]
Yang placed fifth in the decathlon at the 1964 Summer Olympics.[5]
He appeared in a number of films, including Walk, Don't Run (1966),[6] as well as the 1970 western There Was a Crooked Man... as a tough inmate named Ah-Ping who did not speak.[citation needed]
Yang served in the Legislative Yuan from 1983 to 1986 as a member of the Kuomintang representing what became the Lowland Aborigine Constituency. He later spoke in support of the Democratic Progressive Party.[7]
After Yang's retirement from athletics, he worked as a trainer and supervisor of National Sports Training Center in Zuoying, where Ku Chin-shui and Lee Fu-an were trained. After that, Yang, a Taoist convert from Christianity, worked as a priest and a Tongji in a Taoist temple in his native place for 20 years.[8]
Yang was a member of the Amis, one of the fourteen officially recognized peoples of Taiwanese aborigines. He had a wife, Daisy, and two sons: Cedric Yang (Yang Sui-yuen) and C.K. Yang Jr. and three grandchildren: Madison Yang, Carmen Yang, and Dorothy Yang. In 2001, while serving as president of the National Sports Training Center at Kaohsiung, Yang was diagnosed with liver cancer. He died in 2007 from a massive stroke.[9] He is buried in Ivy Lawn Memorial Park in Ventura, California.[10]
See also
References
- ^ a b c Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Yang C. K." Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ Han Cheung (August 30, 2015). "An Olympic summer to remember". Taipei Times. Retrieved August 26, 2018.
- ^ Today in History. rti.org.tw (January 26, 2007)
- ^ "12th IAAF World Championships In Athletics: IAAF Statistics Handbook" (PDF). Berlin: IAAF. 2009. pp. 546, 559–60, 649. Archived from the original (PDF) on August 6, 2009. Retrieved May 7, 2011.
- ^ "Athletics at the 1964 Tokyo Summer Games: Men's Decathlon". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on April 17, 2020. Retrieved January 26, 2018.
- ^ Dillman, Lisa (January 30, 2007). "C.K. Yang, 74; decathlete won Taiwan's 1st Olympic medal at 1960 Rome Games". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved January 24, 2020.
- ^ Jacobs, J. Bruce (2012). Democratizing Taiwan. Brill. p. 162. ISBN 9789004221543.
- ^ Yeh, Joseph (September 9, 2009). "The Life and Legend of Taiwan's first Olympic medalist "Asian Iron Man" C.K. Yang". Culture Taiwan. Archived from the original on February 16, 2010. Retrieved January 28, 2020.
- ^ "C. K. Yang, 74, Decathlon Silver Medalist, Is Dead". The New York Times. Associated Press. February 1, 2007. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
- ^ "Chuan-Kwang "C. K." Yang (1933–2007) – Find A Grave Memorial". Findagrave.com. Retrieved February 15, 2012.
External links
- The Games of the XVII Olympiad, Rome 1960: Official Report of the Organizing Committee, The Organizing Committee of the Games of the XVII Olympiad, 1960.
- Volume 1, Yang's entry and vital statistics in the List of Athletes, p. 832
- Volume 2 Part 1, results and nine photographs of Yang during and after the decathlon competition, pp. 160–178
- Database Olympics
- UCLA notice about C.K. Yang's death
- Asian Iron Man: Yang Chuan-kuang dies of illness, Apple Daily, January 29, 2007 (in Chinese)
- Chuan-Kwang Yang at Olympics.com
- 1933 births
- 2007 deaths
- Amis people
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1956 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1964 Summer Olympics
- Taiwanese decathletes
- Taiwanese male pole vaulters
- Olympic athletes of Taiwan
- Olympic silver medalists for Taiwan
- University of California, Los Angeles alumni
- People from Taitung County
- Burials at Ivy Lawn Cemetery
- Asian Games medalists in athletics (track and field)
- UCLA Bruins men's track and field athletes
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1954 Asian Games
- Athletes (track and field) at the 1958 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1960 Summer Olympics
- Asian Games gold medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games silver medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Asian Games bronze medalists for Chinese Taipei
- Olympic silver medalists in athletics (track and field)
- Medalists at the 1954 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 1958 Asian Games
- Converts to pagan religions from Christianity
- Track & Field News Athlete of the Year winners
- Taiwanese sportsperson-politicians
- Aboriginal Members of the Legislative Yuan
- Kuomintang Members of the Legislative Yuan in Taiwan
- Taiwanese Taoists