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Yang Chuan-kwang

1933 - 2007

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Yang Chuan-kwang, or C.K. Yang (Amis: Maysang Kalimud, Chinese: 楊傳廣; pinyin: Yáng Chuánguǎng; July 10, 1933 – January 27, 2007), was a Taiwanese Olympian decathlete. Yang attended college at UCLA, where he trained and competed with teammate and Olympian Rafer Johnson and was coached by Elvin C. Drake. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Yang Chuan-kwang is the 512th most popular athlete (down from 453rd in 2019), the 23rd most popular biography from Taiwan (up from 29th in 2019) and the most popular Taiwanese Athlete.

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Among ATHLETES

Among athletes, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 512 out of 6,025. Before him are Yusuf Dikeç, Lawrence Stevens, Alfred Swahn, Yevgeniya Sechenova, Gustaf Söderström, and Leo Sexton. After him are Vilhjálmur Einarsson, Gustavo Marzi, Armas Toivonen, John Winter, Xenia Stad-de Jong, and Alexander Ragulin.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1933, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 287. Before him are Bat Ye'or, Imre Nagy, Yoshi Oyakawa, Valéria Gyenge, Mildred McDaniel, and R. Murray Schafer. After him are José Faria, Helmuth Rilling, Mark Damon, Helmut Senekowitsch, Sergio Pitol, and William Smith. Among people deceased in 2007, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 225. Before him are Ronald Speirs, Stuart Rosenberg, Néstor Rossi, Veikko Karvonen, Ian Richardson, and Jan Wolkers. After him are John Winter, Joachim Hansen, Helmut Senekowitsch, Georg Buschner, Mark St. John, and Giuseppe Baldo.

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In Taiwan

Among people born in Taiwan, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 23 out of 116. Before him are Takeshi Kaneshiro (1973), Steve Chen (1978), Cheng Yen (1937), Lisa Su (1969), Su Tseng-chang (1947), and Sylvia Chang (1953). After him are Barbie Hsu (1976), Annette Lu (1944), Wu Den-yih (1948), Frank Hsieh (1946), Jay Chou (1979), and Lin Chi-ling (1974).

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Among ATHLETES In Taiwan

Among athletes born in Taiwan, Yang Chuan-kwang ranks 1. After him are Chi Cheng (1944), Kuo Hsing-chun (1993), Chen Shih-hsin (1978), Donald Scott (null), Chu Mu-yen (1982), Sung Yu-chi (1982), Lee Yang (1995), Yang Yung-wei (1997), Hsu Shu-ching (1991), Chen Wei-ling (1982), and Cheng I-ching (1992).

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