James Yap (basketball, born 1933)

Chinese Filipino basketball player (1933–2003)

James Yap (葉克強)
Personal information
Born	26 September 1933
Died	2003 (aged 69–70)
Nationality	Filipino

James Yap (Chinese: 葉克強; (26 September 1933 – 2003)^[1] was a Chinese Filipino^[2] basketball player who competed as part of the Republic of China's squad at the 1956 Summer Olympics.^[3] He graduated from Chiang Kai-shek College.^[4] He was born in 1933 on Gulangyu Island, Xiamen, China and moved to the Philippines at the age of 5. In 1954 he attended the FIBA World Basketball Championship in Rio de Janeiro and the Asian Games in Manila as a member of the Republic of China team. In 1956, he was a member of the ROC team to the Olympics in Melbourne and once again in Rome in 1960. He died in 2003.

References

^ "James Yap". Olympedia. Retrieved 20 March 2022.
^ (in Chinese) 從首屆遠運到十七屆羅馬奧運的的國家籃球代表隊 Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine
^ "James Yap Olympic Results". sports-reference.com. Archived from the original on 12 August 2011. Retrieved 4 February 2011.
^ (in Chinese) [1]