Liu Changchun

Liu Changchun (; listed in official Olympic records as "Liu, Cheng-Chun";The Games of the Xth Olympiad, Los Angeles, 1932: Official Report, The Xth Olympiade Committee of the Games of Los Angeles, U.S.A. 1932 Ltd., 1933.

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born 1909 on Ping Island, Jin County, Fengtian, China,"The first Chinese to step into the Olympic arena—Liu Changchun", , Chinese Taipei Olympic Committee (), publication and copyright dates unknown.

• , retrieved on 2008-08-19"The avant-garde of Chinese physical education—Liu Changchun", , Dialian University of Technology, 2003.
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died in Dalian, China) was a Chinese athlete.Liu was the first athlete to represent China in competition at an Olympic Games. He was the sole competitor from the Republic of China at the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles; four years later he again represented the Republic of China at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin. He was also an athletics coach and physical education teacher and a sports administrator.

1932 Summer Olympics

Due to the Sino-Japanese War, the Kuomintang of the Republic of China decided to abstain from attending the Games of the X Olympiad in Los Angeles.The Japanese puppet state in Manchuria and eastern Inner Mongolia, Manchukuo, announced that two...
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