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available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Chi Cheng is a
Chinese track and field athlete. She was an Olympic medalist in 1968,
and was named the Associated Press Athlete of the Year for 1970. Chi
studied on the college level at the California State Polytechnic
University, Pomona in Pomona, California, where she received most of her
athletic training. As a student there, she won four U.S. national
championships and over a two year period was the winner of 153 of the
154 events she entered. Representing the Republic of China (as Taiwan),
she won the bronze medal in the women's 80-meter hurdles in the 1968
Summer Olympics. In 1970, she broke or tied three world records,
accomplishing this feat in the space of just one week. For her
achievement, Chi Cheng was named the Associated Press Athlete of the
Year. Also, she became the Director of Women's Athletics at the
University of Redlands, California, from 1974 to 1976.