Nationality Chinese Taipei Height 1.72 m Role Olympic athlete | Name Chang Hao Class(es) Sailboard Weight 72 kg | |
Born 14 November 1990 (age 33) ( 1990-11-14 ) Nantou, Taiwan Club Chinese Taipei Sailing
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Chang Hao (Chinese: 張浩; pinyin: Zhāng Hào; born November 14, 1990 in Nantou) is a Taiwanese windsurfer, who specialized in Neil Pryde RS:X class. He represented Chinese Taipei in two editions of the Olympic Games (2008 and 2012) and has been currently training for the Chinese Taipei Sailing Association throughout most of his sporting career under his coach Lin Chun Chien. As of September 2013, Chang is ranked no. 103 in the world for the sailboard class by the International Sailing Federation.
Chang made his official debut, as a 17-year-old teen, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, where he finished thirty-first in the men's RS:X class with a net score of 260, edging out Croatia's Luka Mratović by a scant, five-point gap.
At the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Chang competed for his second Chinese Taipei team in the RS:X class by receiving a berth from the World Championships in Cadiz, Spain. Struggling to attain a higher position in the opening series, Chang posted a net score of 289 points to end his race with a thirty-fifth-place effort in a fleet of thirty-eight windsurfers.