Hong Kong’s Olympic Gold medalist Cheung Ka-long created another piece of history over the weekend winning gold in men’s individual foil at the FIE World Cup in Paris.
Cheung beat Edoardo Luperi of Italy 15-12 in the final.
photos: Eva Pavia FIE
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Edgar Cheung Ka Long Wins Gold
Edgar Cheung Ka Long stands on the podium to collect his GOLD medal in the foil competition at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – Chapeau.
Cheung fought really hard to get there, facing 6 match points in his quarterfinal but made victory in the final look simple beating defending champion Italian Daniele Garozzo 15-11.
“I just tried to talk to myself, I’m nothing against him. This is the Olympic champion, the (former) world champion. I’m nobody, I just keep fighting until the end,” Cheung said after his bout.
This is only Hong Kong’s second-ever gold medal after Lei Lai San’s windsurfing gold in 1996, and only the fourth ever!
“The reaction in Hong Kong has been insane,” Cheung said at a news conference. “It means a lot to show to the world we can do it, we’re not only a city, we can fight for victory,”
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World Sports Photography Awards 2020
This beautiful shot by Stefan Wermuth for Reuters of the Hong Kong Women’s Artistic Swim Team in the ‘Team Free Competition’ at the 18th FINA World Championship, took Gold in the Precision category of the World Sports Photography Awards 2020.
The championships took place during July 2019 in Gwangju, Republic of Korea and Hong Kong were 25th in the Team Free.
Congratulations to Stefan on his gold medal. You can see all the awarding photos at the World Sports Photography Awards website.
Sarah Lee Wins Gold Infront of Home Fans
Hong Kong’s Sprint World Champion won her third consecutive sprint World Cup event at the HK Velodrome in front of her ecstatic home fans.
On Day 2 of the 2019-2020 UCI Track Cycling World Cup: Hong Kong, local star and current World Champion Sarah Lee Wai Sze was utterly dominant in the Women’s Sprint, storming to her third straight World Cup gold.
Three Hong Kong riders competed in the Women’s Sprint, Sarah Lee clocked the fastest time of 10.590 seconds in the Qualifying 200m time trial and advanced to 1/8 finals with ease.
Jessica Lee Hoi Yan recorded a time of 11.002 seconds and advanced to the 1/16 Finals where she defeated Russian rider Natalia Antonova to progress, while Lee Yin Yin ranked last in the qualifying.
Sarah and Jessica went head-to-head in the last sixteen, with the reigning World Champion easily dispatching her teammate in straight races. Lee Wai Sze went unbeaten in the competition, defeating China’s Zhong Tianshi, Ukrainian Olena Starikova and Germany’s Emma Hinze in two straight races to win gold on home soil.
Lee’s win was her third straight UCI Track Cycling World Cup gold in 2019, having also won in Minsk and Glasgow, she’s now unbeaten in the sprint since last June.
Lee will compete in the Women’s Keirin on Day 3, hoping to double her gold tally on home soil.
Additional reporting and images: UCI
Tang Wai-lok Wins Gold!!!
Tang Wai-lok wins Hong Kong’s first gold medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio in the men’s S14 200m freestyle.
Swimming in the same pool where the Olympic Games were held a month ago. Tang took the lead just before the hundred metres mark and was on world record pace for much of the race, just missing out by five hundredths of a second, winning the gold medal in a new Paralympic Games record time of 1:56.32. Thomas Hamer (Great Britain) and Daniel Fox (Australia) took the silver and bronze medals in 1:56.58 and 1:56.69 respectively.
The race itself starts at around 3:30 of the youtube video.
Hong Kong Para-rowing Team Wins 4 Gold Medals at World Indoor Rowing Championships
The Hong Kong Para-rowing team won 4 Gold, 3 Silver and 1 Bronze Medals at the 4th INAS World Indoor Rowing Championships, 2nd INAS International Regatta and 9th International Para-Rowing Regatta at Gavirate, Italy on the 14-17 May, 2015.
At the 4th INAS World Indoor Rowing Championships Para-rower, Tsoi Ka Ming won the Gold medal at the Men’s Individual 500m event and broke the world record in 01:29.2, he has also capture the Silver medal in Men’s Individual 1000m event. While Lee Wai Yi and Liu Wang Sin swept the 2 Gold and 2 Silver medals in the Women Individual 500m and 1000m respectively.
At the 2nd INAS International Regatta, after a year of hard training, Hong Kong’s Para-rowing Team (Intellectual Disabled crew) won Gold medal in LTA mixed coxed four event.
The Hong Kong Para-rowing Team (Physically Disabled crew) also attended a 10 days intensive training camp organized by the FISA (International Rowing Federation) at the same venue. The Para-rowers, Chan Ka Man and Yau Chi Choi Daniel brought home a one Bronze medal in LTA Mixed Double Sculls event while, the silver medalist in recent Sydney International Rowing Regatta, Ajmal Victor Samuel was placed fifth among 24 countries in the AS Men’s Single Sculls event.
Source: Hong Kong, China Rowing Association
Editing: bc magazine
Asian Games: Rugby 7s – Japan edge Hong Kong for Gold
Japan won the men’s gold medal at the Asian Games rugby sevens competition defeating arch-rivals Hong Kong 24-12 in a gripping final on Thursday.
It was the second successive time the two rivals had met in the Asian Games final and the result was the same with Japan running out victors although Hong Kong pushed them to the limit once again.
“This win means a lot to us. Only one team from Asia will be going to the Rio Olympics, and we have put down a marker,” said Japan’s 15s captain Michael Leitch who was called up for duty to retain the sevens title.
Hong Kong entered the Asian Games having won both opening legs at the ARFU Asian Sevens Series but couldn’t quite find the winning formula against a Japanese outfit beefed up with Top League players including Leitch who scored one of the four tries for Japan in the final.
Hong Kong veteran Rowan Varty had given first blood to his team when he cut through the defence to score the first try of the match after both teams had spent the first five minutes going hammer and tongs at each other.
Japan equalized through Leitch who bulldozed his way over from close range, but he was sin-binned seconds later for a dangerous tackle. Hong Kong failed to take advantage, however, as a superb Japanese defence kept them out.
With the hooter having gone for halftime, Hong Kong opted to keep the ball alive with a quick tap and they paid for it when the ball was turned over and Japan punted it downfield.
In the chase for the ball, Hong Kong winger Tom McQueen was penalized for obstruction and a penalty try was awarded to Japan.
Hong Kong came back after the break when sub Salom Yiu Kam-shing scored soon after coming on but tries from Lomano Lemeki and Kazushi Hano saw Japan finish strongly.
“A silver medal is a great achievement but it is still a disappointment as we had come here to win the gold,” said Hong Kong skipper Jamie Hood.
Hong Kong had to fight hard to enter the final needing to get past South Korea in the semi-finals and winning a closely fought contest 15-7.
Korea led 7-5 at the break with a try from winger Jeong Yeon-sik cancelling out Hong Kong’s opening try of the match, which came in the fifth minute by winger Varty who rounded his opposite number to score.
But with the skies opening up over the impressive Namdong rugby stadium, the orders were clear from Hong Kong coach Gareth Baber – keep play inside the opponent’s 22 – and Hong Kong carried it out perfectly as they encamped inside Korean territory and kept play tight. The pressure paid dividends with tries to Tom McQueen and skipper Jamie Hood.
Japan had it easier in the other semi-final as they breezed to a 40-0 win over Sri Lanka with star player Lomano Lemeki grabbing a hat-trick.
Once winger Kazushi Hano had touched down for the first try, it seemed Sri Lanka had set their minds on the bronze medal match as Japan had it all their own way running in five more tries to book their berth in the final.
South Korea went on to win the bronze medal defeating a spirited Sri Lanka 17-14 in a tense game.
Additional reporting HKRFU, photo: Power Sport Images for HKRFU