Hsu Tung-hsiung

Hsu Tung-hsiung (born 20 December 1954) is a Taiwanese sports official and former swimmer. He won bronze medals in four events at the 1970 Asian Games, and competed in four events at the 1972 Summer Olympics.^[1][2]

Hsu Tung-hsiung

Personal information
Born	(1954-12-20) 20 December 1954 (age 70) Taitung County, Taiwan
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Medal record Representing  Republic of China Asian Games 1970 Bangkok 100m backstroke 1970 Bangkok 200m backstroke 1970 Bangkok 100m butterfly 1970 Bangkok 400m individual medley

Hsu Tung-hsiung
Traditional Chinese	許東雄
Hanyu Pinyin	Xǔ Dōngxióng

Hsu was born in Taitung, and moved to Kaohsiung at the age of 12.^[3] Nicknamed "the iron man of swimming", as late as the 1980s he held thirteen national records in swimming.^[2] He later became the Dean of Student Affairs at Taipei Physical Education College, and in 2006 began pursuing PhD at Soochow University in mainland China.^[4] He was elected president of the Chinese Taipei Swimming Association in May 2011.^[5] He is the father of Hsu Chi-chieh, who also became an Olympic swimmer for Taiwan.^[6]