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Press Release of the Sports Office of Taipei City Government

Unit: the Sports Office of Taipei City Government
Address: No.10 ,Sec. 4, Nanjing E.Rd.,SongShan District, Taipei city 10553 Taiwan R.O.C
Contacts: Section Chief Chang, Department of Sports for All
Tel: 02-25702330 ext.120
Cell: 0953252983
Fax: 02-25786504
Date: March 25,2010
Subject: “The Representative Team of Taipei City have consecutively clinched 3 times general championship in National Physically and Mentally Challenged Race until 2010.”
Time: March 17 to 22, 2010
Place: Chia-Yi County

The 2010 National Physically and Mentally Challenged Race had come to an perfect ending on March 22 in Chia-Yi County after a 6-day race. The Representative Team of Taipei City without fail clinched 242 gold, 138 silver, and 124 bronze, at a total of 504 metals and consecutive 3-year general championships.

The sports event this year included track and field sports, swimming, table tennis, badminton, tennis, basketball, archery, shooting, bowling, wrestling, pool,roller-skating and so; within 17 sports, the competition came along with 549 gold metals.
Representatives of Taipei City who separately belongs to 4 categories including physically, visually, intellectually, aurally challenged, participated in 16 kinds of races except for wrestling, and summed up with obtaining 600 metals. Swimmers won 109 to which are close half of the golds of swimming while field-trackers clinched 68 and bowling players 27. Shooters matched with 13 while badminton players obtained 8, table tennis players 7, tennis players 5, archers 2, and the rest of the representatives competed in other sports also won one each.