The Most Famous
MARTIAL ARTS from Taiwan
This page contains a list of the greatest Taiwanese Martial Arts. The pantheon dataset contains 179 Martial Arts, 1 of which were born in Taiwan. This makes Taiwan the birth place of the 41st most number of Martial Arts behind Egypt, and Côte d'Ivoire.
Top 2
The following people are considered by Pantheon to be the most legendary Taiwanese Martial Arts of all time. This list of famous Taiwanese Martial Arts is sorted by HPI (Historical Popularity Index), a metric that aggregates information on a biography's online popularity.
1. Huang Chih-hsiung (b. 1976)
With an HPI of 37.41, Huang Chih-hsiung is the most famous Taiwanese Martial Arts. His biography has been translated into 15 different languages on wikipedia.
Huang Chih-hsiung (Chinese: 黃志雄; pinyin: Húang Zhìxióng; born October 16, 1976) is a Taiwanese athlete. Representing Taiwan (as Chinese Taipei) in the 2004 Summer Olympics, he won the silver medal at the Men's 68 kg Taekwondo event. At the 2000 Summer Olympics he won a bronze medal at the Men's 58 kg Taekwondo event.
2. Tseng Li-cheng (b. 1986)
With an HPI of 31.45, Tseng Li-cheng is the 2nd most famous Taiwanese Martial Arts. Her biography has been translated into 16 different languages.
Tseng Li-cheng (Chinese: 曾櫟騁; pinyin: Zēng Lìchěng; old name: Tseng Pei-hua, Chinese: 曾珮華; born 26 December 1986) is a Taiwanese taekwondo practitioner of aboriginal origin (tribe: Amis). At the 2012 Summer Olympics, she won the bronze medal in the Taekwondo Women's 57 kg.
People
Pantheon has 2 people classified as Taiwanese martial arts born between 1976 and 1986. Of these 2, 2 (100.00%) of them are still alive today. The most famous living Taiwanese martial arts include Huang Chih-hsiung, and Tseng Li-cheng. As of April 2024, 1 new Taiwanese martial arts have been added to Pantheon including Huang Chih-hsiung.
