Hoo Cha-pen (Chinese: 霍 劍平) is a Taiwanese basketball player. He competed as part of the Republic of China's squad at the 1956 Summer Olympics. Given a list of categories: company, educational institution, artist, athlete, office holder, mean of transportation, building, natural place, village, animal, plant, album, film or written work, what category does the paragraph belong to?
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Athlete