LEE Chih Kai

Artistic Gymnastics

Date of Birth: 3 Apr 1996

Age: 25

Gender: Male

Height (m/ft): 1.70/5'6''

Place of birth: YILAN

Birth Country:

Chinese Taipei

Place of residence : KAOHSIUNG

Residence Country:

Chinese Taipei

Events and Medals
Records
Schedule
Bio
General Interest
Milestones

Events and Medals

Discipline	Event	Rank	Medal
Artistic Gymnastics	Men's All-Around	21
	Men's Floor Exercise
	Men's Pommel Horse	2
	Men's Rings
	Men's Vault
	Men's Parallel Bars
	Men's Horizontal Bar
	Men's Team TPE Chinese Taipei

Schedule

Start Time	Location	Event	Status
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Men	Men's All-Around Final	Finished
	Ariake Gymnastics Centre - Pommel	Men's Pommel Horse Final	Finished

Biographical Information

Highlights

Olympic Games

Year	Location	PH
2016	Rio de Janeiro, BRA	31

World Championships

Year	Location	FX	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Stuttgart, GER	14	66	46	2	55	12	6
2018	Doha, QAT	33	88	138	3	193	88	17
2015	Glasgow, GBR	28	155	52	22	175	42	23
2014	Nanning, CHN	88	122	115	53	130	45	24

Asian Games

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2018	Indonesia	4	13	48	6	1	26	5	4

Asian Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA	Team
2019	Ulaanbaatar, MGL	5	DNF	12	14	6	26	1	3
2017	Bangkok, THA	25	-	13	34	10	21	7	4

Pacific Rim Championships

Year	Location	FX	VT	PH	AA
2018	Medellin, COL	3	1	2	18

World Cup overview - Best rank per season and event since 2017

Year	FX	VT	HB	PB	PH	SR	AA
2020/2021	-	-	-	-	-	-	1 x 8th
2019/2020	-	-	-	1 x 28th	3 x 1st	-	-
2017/2018	1 x 5th	1 x 2nd	1 x 26th	1 x 4th	3 x 2nd	1 x 14th	-

World Cup - Ten best performances since 2017

Rank	Year	Event	Location	Result
1	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Doha, QAT	15.400
1	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	15.266
1	2019/2020	Pommel Horse	Cottbus, GER	15.508
2	2017/2018	Vault	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.450
2	2017/2018	Pommel Horse	Doha, QAT	14.800
2	2017/2018	Pommel Horse	Baku, AZE	14.766
2	2017/2018	Pommel Horse	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	14.833
4	2017/2018	Parallel Bars	Melbourne, VIC, AUS	13.800
5	2017/2018	Floor Exercise	Doha, QAT	13.766
6	2017/2018	Vault	Doha, QAT	14.166

Legend
FX - Floor Excercise, VT - Vault, HB - Horizontal Bar, PB - Parallel Bars, PH - Pommel Horse, SR - Rings, AA - Individual All-Around, DNS - Did Not Start, DSQ - Disqualified

Market Kai [the name of a character he played in a movie about gymnastics]. (nownews.com, 07 Aug 2016)

Playing computer games, sports. (Facebook page, 31 Jan 2017)

Occupation:

Athlete, Business Owner, Student

Taiwan Sport University, Chinese Taipei

Languages spoken:

He had a left biceps strain in March 2018 and took three months to recover from the injury. (businesstoday.com.tw, 24 Aug 2018)

He broke his foot and tore ankle ligaments a month prior to the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. As a result he only competed on pommel horse at the Games. (intlgymnast.com, 23 Feb 2018)

He took up the sport at primary school in Yilan, Chinese Taipei. (news.ltn.com.tw, 27 Apr 2012)

At age six he started performing basic gymnastics moves to help attract customers to his family's vegetable stall in the local market. "I did some basic moves - handstands, rollovers, and I had the experience of getting used to performing in public." (gymnastics.sport, 12 Mar 2019; forums.chinatimes.com, 2005)

To win gold at the 2020 Olympic Games in Tokyo. (cw.com.tw, 16 Dec 2019)

He received the 2019 Guo-Guang Sports Medal of Chinese Taipei. (rti.org.tw, 29 Nov 2019)

He was named Best Male Athlete at the 2018 Sport Elite Awards Ceremony in Chinese Taipei. (udn.com, 12 Dec 2018)

In January 2018 he ran a leg of the Olympic torch relay ahead of the 2018 Olympic Winter Games. (phuketnews.easybranches.com, 01 Jan 2018)

General Interest

General
DOCUMENTARIES
As a child he was one of several young athletes featured in the documentary film 'Jump! Boys'. A sequel titled 'Jump! Men', that featured 15 years of his career and life, was released in October 2017. (news.cgtn.com, 04 Nov 2018; taipeitimes.com, 25 Aug 2017; chinapost.nownews.com, 25 Aug 2017)

Milestones

He became the first artistic gymnast representing Chinese Taipei to win a medal on pommel horse at the world championships when he claimed bronze at the 2018 World Championships in Doha, Qatar. He was also the first artistic gymnast from Chinese Taipei to win a gold medal at the Asian Games when he triumphed on pommel horse at the 2018 Asian Games in Indonesia. (taipeitimes.com, 04 Nov 2018; SportsDeskOnline, 04 Dec 2018; insidethegames.biz, 23 Aug 2018)

Social Media

Legend

:: Silver Medal
:: Gold Medal Event
:: Silver Medal Event
:: Bronze Medal Event

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