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Lai Fang-mei

Taiwanese archer

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJun 24, 2025
Entity authorityQ81049874 ↗
Source-derived summary

Lai Fang-mei (born 30 December 1960) is an archer who represented Chinese Taipei.

Archery

Lai finished twelfth at the 1988 Summer Olympic Games in the women's individual event. She also finished eleventh in the women's team event as part of the Chinese Taipei team as part of the Chinese Taipei team.

At the 1990 Asian Games she won a silver medal in the women's team event.

In 1992 Lai finished seventh in the women's individual event beating Nathalie Hibon and Joanna Nowicka before losing to Kim Soo-nyung in the quarterfinals. She finished eleventh in the women's team event.

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“Lai Fang-mei” enters the record as taiwanese archer. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Fang-mei, Taiwanese and archer can confirm, complicate or overturn.

Editorial reviewA dependable orientation record for establishing vocabulary, names and a first evidence trail. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—1960, 1988, 1990, 1992—that can be checked directly. The linked authority record independently contributes the date 1960-12-30. Its strongest next move is a source search built around Fang-mei, Taiwanese and archer.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 24, 2025. The linked authority identifier is Q81049874. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1960, 1988, 1990 and 1992.

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This entry incorporates text from “Lai Fang-mei” 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.