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Chou Chia-chi

badminton player

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 26, 2026
Entity authorityQ1076740
Source-derived summary

Chou Chia-chi (Chinese: 周佳琦; pinyin: Zhōu Jiāqí; Wade–Giles: Chou Chia-ch'i; born 21 August 1983) is a Taiwanese badminton player. Chou was part of the Taiwan national women's team that won the bronze medal at the 2006 Uber Cup in Japan. At the same year she participated at the Asian Games in Doha, Qatar. She competed at the 2007 World Championships in the women's doubles event partnered with Ku Pei-ting, and finished in the quarterfinals round. In 2008, she won double title in the women's and mixed doubles event at the New Zealand Open.

Personal life

In January 2011, Chou married to a former Taiwan national badminton player, Hu Chung-shien.

Achievements

BWF Grand Prix

The BWF Grand Prix has two levels: Grand Prix and Grand Prix Gold. This series of badminton tournaments has been sanctioned by the Badminton World Federation (BWF) since 2007.

Editorial summary

The public source identifies “Chou Chia-chi” as badminton player. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Chou, Chia-chi and badminton.

Editorial reviewA productive starting point for separating a subject’s documented career from later reputation and commemoration. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1983, 2006, 2007, 2008—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Chou, Chia-chi and badminton providing the first useful test.
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Evidence profile

The entry’s evidential value lies in the named roles, institutions and publications that can be tested against primary documentation. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 26, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q1076740. The first chronological checks are 1983, 2006, 2007 and 2008.

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This entry incorporates text from Chou Chia-chi” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.