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Hong Kong Women’s Rugby Results – 18 September, 2021
Premiership
Gai Wu Falcons 0-22 USRC Tigers
@ Shek Kip Mei, Kick-off: 18:00
Kowloon 55-0 CWB Phoenix
@ King’s Park, Kick-off: 18:00
Valley Black 12-11 HKFC Ice
@ Happy Valley, Kick-off: 18:00
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Women’s Rugby Fixtures: 18 September, 2021
It’s Back!!!
Women’s Premiership rugby returns this weekend!
Stretch your legs, stroll down and watch the ladies in action.
Entry is Free!
Coleman Wong Wins US Open Junior Boys Doubles!
Coleman Wong Chak-lam made history at the US Open when he became the first Hongkonger to win a Boys’ Doubles Grand Slam tournament.
The unseeded duo, 17-year-old Wong paired with Max Westphal (18), beat Viacheslav Bielinskyi and Petr Nesterov after a tie-breaker 6-3, 5-7, 10-1.
updated:19:38, 12 September – added video highlights of the final
images: US Open
Hongkong Post Announces an Olympic Medalist Stamp Sheetlet
Celebrating the achievements of the Hong Kong team at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, Hongkong Post will issue a commemorative stamp sheetlet. The set of five newly designed stamps will showcase the medal-winning sports of fencing, swimming, table tennis, karate and track cycling.
All of Hong Kong’s Olympic medallists Cheung Ka Long, Siobhan Haughey, Doo Hoi Kem, Lee Ho Ching, Minnie Soo Wai Yam, Grace Lau and Lee Wai Sze will be featured on the commemorative sheetlet to be issued on 28 October, 2021.
Stamps to celebrate Hong Kong’s Tokyo Paralympic medalists will apparently be released later.
Fast, Femme and Furious
Over 30 teams from 10 clubs participated in Valley RFC‘s Fast, Femme and Furious at a sun-soaked King’s Park on the 4th September
Showcasing women’s hockey, rugby and netball the competitive action was much appreciated by players young and old after the extended Covid enforced cancellation of team sport across Hong Kong.
At the end of a hot day’s rugby action, USRC Tigers emerged victorious, beating the host’s Valley RFC in the final. The hosts triumphed in the netball, while HK Football Club won the hockey event.
Valley‘s Grant Beuzeval commenting after the event described Fast, Femme and Furious as “A joyous celebration and showcase of female sport” adding that the club hopes to grow the event and create “Asia’s premier female multi-sports festival”.
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Photos : Ike Li / Ike Images, Valley RFC
Updated 7 September to add comments from Grant Beuzeval
Leung Yuk Wing Wins Mixed BC4 Boccia Bronze
In the individual mixed BC4 Boccia bronze medal match Hong Kong’s Leung Yuk Wing battled back from losing the first set against Chinese bowler Yuansen Zheng to win a thrilling match 5-4.
Wong Ting-ting Takes Bronze at Tokyo Paralympics
Seventeen-year-old Wong Ting-ting won table tennis bronze, Hong Kong’s first medal at the Tokyo Paralympics.
Competing at her first Paralympics Wong won the first game of her TT11 singles semi-final 11:9 but then lost the next three (5:11, 6:11, 8:11) to 50-year-old defending champion Elena Prokofev.
Images: Hong Kong Paralympic Committee