https://www.scmp.com/rss/519353/feed The latest news on Vincent Lau Wan-yau, Hong Kong road cyclist, including cycling news and updates. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Hong Kong’s leading time triallers have taken time out of their preparations for this week’s Japan Track Cup to study the streets they hope will be paved with gold later this year. Among the 15-strong Hong Kong squad in Izu City for four days of competition from Thursday, Chloe Leung Wing-yee and Vincent Lau Wan-yau on Monday rode the “very technical course” that will stage the Asian Games time-trial races on September 20. After finishing 22nd in the discipline in the 2025 Road World... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3353380/hong-kong-cyclists-study-japanese-streets-hope-they-will-be-paved-asian-games-gold?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3353380/hong-kong-cyclists-study-japanese-streets-hope-they-will-be-paved-asian-games-gold?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 13 May 2026 05:10:27 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara After giving up his “new life” in the UK to rejoin the Hong Kong cycling programme, Victor Lau Wan-hei is in a city squad set to begin its Asian Track Championships campaign in the thin air of Tagaytay in the Philippines on Wednesday. The brother of leading city road racer Vincent Lau Wan-yau, the 31-year-old Victor Lau had been working as a physiotherapist after quitting full-time competition to study the practice overseas. Herve Dagorne, the Hong Kong head coach, said that Lau had never... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3347741/hong-kong-rider-returns-retirement-ceci-lee-challenged-asian-gold-count?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3347741/hong-kong-rider-returns-retirement-ceci-lee-challenged-asian-gold-count?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 24 Mar 2026 12:43:16 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara After discarding old and outmoded methods to undergo a “new start” last year, Charles Ng Pak-hang will finally achieve one of his career goals when he makes his UCI Track World Cup debut in Perth on Friday. A mixed relay time trial gold medallist from last month’s Asian Road Cycling Championships, Ng will be part of the Hong Kong team time trial quartet at an Australian venue that already holds fond memories. The 27-year-old played down the scratch gold he claimed from an AusCycling track series... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3345244/hong-kong-cyclist-charles-ng-aiming-high-after-making-new-start-golden-2025?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3345244/hong-kong-cyclist-charles-ng-aiming-high-after-making-new-start-golden-2025?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 04 Mar 2026 04:00:10 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Herve Dagorne said he was “honoured” to be appointed as a university professor, but promised the new role would not compromise his single-minded mission of spearheading Hong Kong’s quest for continental and global cycling success. Poised to lead the city squad in this week’s UCI Track World Cup in Perth, Dagorne, who recently signed a new two-year contract, was this week named as adjunct professor in The Education University of Hong Kong’s (EdUHK) Academy for Educational Development and... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3344973/head-coach-says-new-professor-role-will-not-compromise-hong-kongs-hunt-cycling-glory?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3344973/head-coach-says-new-professor-role-will-not-compromise-hong-kongs-hunt-cycling-glory?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 28 Feb 2026 13:00:14 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Head coach Herve Dagorne saluted an “incredible and beautiful” victory after brilliant Hong Kong claimed mixed relay time trial gold at the Asian Road Cycling Championships on Saturday. Vincent Lau Wan-yau, Charles Ng Pak-hang, Franco Chu Tsun-wai, Yang Qianyu, and the irrepressible pair of Chloe Leung Wing-yee and Ceci Lee Sze-wing combined to stun heavy favourites Kazakhstan, and earn the city squad a first continental road title since 2018. It is Hong Kong’s second senior medal in Saudi... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3342773/hong-kong-claim-incredible-beautiful-gold-medal-asian-road-cycling-championships?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3342773/hong-kong-claim-incredible-beautiful-gold-medal-asian-road-cycling-championships?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Feb 2026 11:17:29 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara An arduous trek by air and road, alien terrain and formidable rivals all stand in the way of Hong Kong’s cyclists and success at the Asian Road Cycling Championships in Saudi Arabia this week. Staged in the Kingdom’s Qassim Region from Thursday, the championships will mark a competition return for Ceci Lee Sze-wing, 2½ months after her triple gold medal National Games exploits. They will also provide Herve Dagorne, the head coach, with a chance to nudge his Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI)... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3341930/hong-kong-target-twin-asian-medal-haul-head-coach-dagorne-waits-contract-news?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3341930/hong-kong-target-twin-asian-medal-haul-head-coach-dagorne-waits-contract-news?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 02 Feb 2026 00:00:13 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Ng Pak-hang has said the emergence of a promising crop of youngsters would end the current situation of Hong Kong’s leading cyclists being asked to spread themselves too thin. The 26-year-old, who finished fourth in last week’s National Games time trial, was part of the team pursuit quartet eliminated in qualifying on a fruitless opening day for the city’s athletes. Ng said he and teammates Vincent Lau Wan-yau, Chu Tsun-wai and Mow Ching-yin had not prioritised training for the pursuit, owing to... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3332672/ng-waiting-next-generation-hong-kong-track-stars-ease-burden-pursuit?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3332672/ng-waiting-next-generation-hong-kong-track-stars-ease-burden-pursuit?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 13 Nov 2025 13:00:36 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Vincent Lau Wan-yau said a crash that cost him the chance of a National Games time trial medal “sucked”, but he was “feeling good” ahead of a historic men’s road race on Saturday. Lau claimed an Asian Games time trial bronze two years ago, but his hopes for a similar outcome in Zhuhai on Friday were dashed when he lost more than 30 seconds after tumbling on the slippery 38.7km (24 mile) course. The 29-year-old finished sixth in 47 minutes and 41.03 seconds. His teammate Charles Ng Pak-hang was... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3331969/hong-kongs-lau-feeling-good-road-race-medal-push-despite-crashing-time-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3331969/hong-kongs-lau-feeling-good-road-race-medal-push-despite-crashing-time-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 07 Nov 2025 10:31:09 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Herve Dagorne has backed Yang Qianyu to rein in the provincial rivals who may try to upset Ceci Lee Sze-wing’s pursuit of a second straight National Games cycling road race title. Yang reneged on her retirement plans after initially quitting the sport following her 2023 Asian Games road race gold. Plagued by a back problem since her return to competition, the 32-year-old, also a National Games champion on the track in 2017, has had her recent workload carefully managed by Dagorne. “Her target... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3330310/hong-kong-cyclings-secret-weapon-ceci-lee-national-games-golden-quest?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3330310/hong-kong-cyclings-secret-weapon-ceci-lee-national-games-golden-quest?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Oct 2025 00:00:17 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Hong Kong cycling chiefs have revealed the riders they have charged with living up to the city’s proud National Games history. With 23 medals since Hong Kong began competing in 1997, cycling is the city’s most successful Games sport. Wong Kam-po, who claimed five Games medals, won road race gold for Hong Kong’s only prize on their Shanghai debut 28 years ago. At the 2021 edition in Shaanxi, cycling accounted for four of Hong Kong’s seven medals. One of those was individual road race gold for... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3328590/national-games-cyclists-tasked-continuing-hong-kongs-proud-record?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3328590/national-games-cyclists-tasked-continuing-hong-kongs-proud-record?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 10 Oct 2025 23:00:07 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara As someone who performs the grunt work for his professional team, Vincent Lau Wan-yau has needed a seismic mindset shift to become the spearhead of Hong Kong’s National Games road cycling glory bid. Lau, a 2022 Asian Games medallist and Paris 2024 Olympian, is a domestique for Roojai Insurance, the Thai team he joined last year. “I transport bidons [water bottles] to my teammates [from team car], help control the peloton, and spend time at the front to do lead outs and take the wind,” Lau... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3321866/hong-kong-cyclings-vincent-lau-ready-be-national-games-leader-after-coach-demand?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3321866/hong-kong-cyclings-vincent-lau-ready-be-national-games-leader-after-coach-demand?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 14 Aug 2025 10:00:44 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Ceci Lee Sze-wing has delivered a timely reminder of her potential to become Hong Kong’s National Games poster girl, as the city began its 100-day countdown to co-hosting the showpiece. The cyclist claimed a notable victory in a criterium race on Saturday in Brisbane, where the Hong Kong team are holding a month-long training camp. And on Sunday, Lee, 24, was second behind teammate Chloe Leung Wing-yee in a nip-and-tuck road race. Although Lee is desperately keen to take omnium gold in her... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3320728/hong-kong-cycling-medal-hope-ceci-lee-shows-national-games-promise-australia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3320728/hong-kong-cycling-medal-hope-ceci-lee-shows-national-games-promise-australia?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Aug 2025 14:26:29 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Herve Dagorne has issued a sobering warning to Hong Kong’s cyclists after a tough showing at the China Track Championships. Entering Tuesday’s climax of the six-day competition in Shanghai, which serves as a a key warm-up for November’s National Games, the city team’s senior riders remained empty-handed. On Monday, leading light Ceci Lee Sze-wing opened up a 12-point omnium lead after three disciplines, only to slump to seventh following a closing points race where Dagorne said “she did not... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3318220/hong-kong-cyclists-get-national-games-warning-provinces-ask-famous-faces-help?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3318220/hong-kong-cyclists-get-national-games-warning-provinces-ask-famous-faces-help?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Jul 2025 02:53:23 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Herve Dagorne said star rider Ceci Lee Sze-wing’s twin National Road Championships triumph this weekend highlighted the 24-year-old’s psychological transformation over the past 12 months. Lee made good on her pre-race promise to go in all guns blazing for her first Hong Kong time trial title. She delivered a personal best performance of 22 minutes, 10.258 seconds on Saturday to upstage two-time defending champion Chloe Leung Wing-yee, who was condemned to second place despite covering the 15km... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3315401/hong-kong-cycling-star-ceci-lee-claims-double-wins-after-mental-transformation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3315401/hong-kong-cycling-star-ceci-lee-claims-double-wins-after-mental-transformation?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 Jun 2025 12:00:07 +0000 Cycling head coach Herve Dagorne indicated Hong Kong could change selection criteria for future Olympics, but defended the controversial process that led to Ceci Lee Sze-wing claiming the city’s road race ticket for Paris this summer. The weighting given to previous major championships punishes those with limited experience. It has also been argued that the recent Hong Kong National Road Race Championship, which Lee won to press her Olympic credentials, had a short, flat course, unrecognisable... https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/hong-kong/article/3271318/paris-olympics-did-hong-kong-pick-its-best-cyclists-coach-admits-difficult-situation?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/paris-olympics-2024/hong-kong/article/3271318/paris-olympics-did-hong-kong-pick-its-best-cyclists-coach-admits-difficult-situation?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 21 Jul 2024 23:00:15 +0000 Herve Dagorne has told Hong Kong’s cyclists to embrace the full Olympic experience, after revealing how he repeatedly rubbed shoulders with basketball legend Michael Jordan at the 1992 Barcelona Games. Head coach Dagorne, who was desperately close to a medal in Seoul four years earlier, has substantial Olympic pedigree. He coached Bryan Coquard to 2012 omnium silver, while in charge of the track cycling team for his native France. In that role, Dagorne was a consultant on the planning and... https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3271036/paris-olympics-how-michael-jordans-us-dream-team-gave-hong-kong-coach-games-remember?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3271036/paris-olympics-how-michael-jordans-us-dream-team-gave-hong-kong-coach-games-remember?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 19 Jul 2024 09:30:12 +0000 Ceci Lee Sze-wing will fight on two Olympic fronts, after it was confirmed the star Hong Kong cyclist would add the road race to her omnium commitments in Paris. The Hong Kong men’s road race spot has been handed to Vincent Lau Wan-yau, who said he would have his work cut out to complete the undulating 273-kilometre course. Lee accelerated her Games preparations with a series of fine performances at the recent Six Days of Fiorenzuola in Italy. She won the scratch title, and was runner-up in the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3269730/paris-olympics-hong-kong-cyclist-ceci-lee-set-twin-games-assault-lau-gets-road-race-spot?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/outdoor/article/3269730/paris-olympics-hong-kong-cyclist-ceci-lee-set-twin-games-assault-lau-gets-road-race-spot?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 09 Jul 2024 09:30:09 +0000 Ceci Lee Sze-wing staked a claim for Olympic road race selection after retaining her National Road Championships title on Sunday, but doubts remain over her frame of mind weeks before the Games begin in Paris. Hong Kong’s leading female cyclist, Lee is low on form and confidence in the omnium track discipline she is expected to tackle at her debut Games next month. And Lee said she was “tired and not in the shape I want” after fending off second-placed Guardiola Cheung Lee-tong, and Leung... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3267705/hong-kong-cyclist-lee-makes-olympics-road-race-case-doubts-remain-over-mental-state?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3267705/hong-kong-cyclist-lee-makes-olympics-road-race-case-doubts-remain-over-mental-state?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 23 Jun 2024 09:22:02 +0000 After what was likely to have been the last race of an illustrious career, decorated Hong Kong cyclist Leung Chun-wing turned his attention to his next job as the team’s coach. The former Asian Games gold medallist finished well down the field in 29th in the men’s road race on Thursday, crossing the line in four hours, 32 minutes and 59 seconds, nearly eight minutes behind Kazakhstan’s Yevgeiny Fedorov and Alexy Lutsenko, who crossed holding hands in 4:25:29. Fedorov took gold, Lutsenko silver... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3236956/asian-games-2023-hong-kong-cyclist-leung-chun-wing-set-become-coach-warns-team-be-realistic-going?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3236956/asian-games-2023-hong-kong-cyclist-leung-chun-wing-set-become-coach-warns-team-be-realistic-going?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 05 Oct 2023 12:55:58 +0000 Hong Kong cyclist Vincent Lau Wan-yau won bronze in the men’s individual road time trial at the Asian Games on Tuesday afternoon. The 27-year-old’s time of 50 minutes and 17.76 seconds was briefly good enough to put him top of the standings, with only a few more riders to go in Hangzhou. But Kazakhstan’s Alexey Lutsenko (48:05.75) stormed into the lead, with China’s Xue Ming (50:05.83) pushing Lau down into the bronze medal position. In the women’s event, Hong Kong’s Chloe Leung Wing-yee was... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3236623/asian-games-2023-hong-kong-cyclist-vincent-lau-wins-bronze-road-time-trial?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3236623/asian-games-2023-hong-kong-cyclist-vincent-lau-wins-bronze-road-time-trial?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 03 Oct 2023 07:25:48 +0000 Three days after claiming bronze for Hong Kong in the scratch race, Ceci Lee Sze-wing added an omnium silver at the Asian Track Cycling Championships in Malaysia on Monday. But the double-medal winner is not getting carried away. Instead, she insisted she is determined to catch Japanese rival Yumi Kajihara, who beat her to gold in both events. Lee finished just four points behind Kajihara in the women’s omnium on Monday, and was well ahead of Taiwan’s Huang Ting-ying, who ended up third. It was... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3224705/cyclist-ceci-lee-sze-wing-hopes-catch-rival-yumi-kajihara-after-another-asian-track-championships?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3224705/cyclist-ceci-lee-sze-wing-hopes-catch-rival-yumi-kajihara-after-another-asian-track-championships?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 20 Jun 2023 05:55:09 +0000 Hong Kong cyclist Leung Wing-yee said she is hoping to make it third time lucky when she competes in the 2022 UCI Road World Championships in Wollongong, Australia. The 25-year-old Leung will be given a glimpse of just how good the top riders are when she starts in the 34.2-kilometre time trial on Saturday, before taking part in the 164.3km mass start road race six days later. “I could not finish the road race on my two previous attempts in 2017 and 2018 and my target in Wollongong will be... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3192668/uci-road-world-championships-2022-leung-wing-yee-hopes-it-will-be?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3192668/uci-road-world-championships-2022-leung-wing-yee-hopes-it-will-be?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 16 Sep 2022 00:47:39 +0000 Cycling star Sarah Lee Wai-sze brushed off questions about her age on Sunday, after storming the field to clinch gold in the women’s keirin at the Japan Cup II. As the two Japan Cups concluded at the Izu Velodrome, the site of the Tokyo Olympics, the 35-year-old Lee won the keirin first round comfortably while fellow Hong Kong rider Yeung Cho-yiu finished third. The finals, however, was a dramatically different affair. With six finalists from Hong Kong, South Korea, and the host country Japan in... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3187221/cycling-star-sarah-lee-brushes-aside-age-concerns-claim-gold-japan?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3187221/cycling-star-sarah-lee-brushes-aside-age-concerns-claim-gold-japan?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 31 Jul 2022 12:48:14 +0000 Veteran cyclist Ko Siu-wai will stick to his plan of ending his career in Hangzhou – hopefully on a high note – despite the 2022 Asian Games being pushed back to next year. At 34, the oldest member of the Hong Kong men’s team finished second in Saturday’s individual time trial at the National Championships in Bride’s Pool Road, as the domestic flagship event returned for the first time since the start of the pandemic. Winner Vincent Lau Wan-yau finished the 15-kilometre course in 20 minutes and... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3187153/veteran-cyclist-ko-siu-wai-still-aiming-asian-games-swansong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3187153/veteran-cyclist-ko-siu-wai-still-aiming-asian-games-swansong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 30 Jul 2022 08:35:44 +0000 Hong Kong’s cycling team have set their sights on the track World Championships in October after the postponement of Asian Games, with star rider Sarah Lee Wai-sze still included in their plans – for now. With China delaying September’s Hangzhou Games because of a rise in Covid-19 cases, cycling head coach Shen Jinkang and his charges will now compete in a series of international competitions building up to the track Worlds in Paris. “We will need to find other competitions to keep the momentum... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3178213/sarah-lee-wai-szes-asian-games-status-air-hong-kong-cycling-team?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3178213/sarah-lee-wai-szes-asian-games-status-air-hong-kong-cycling-team?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 18 May 2022 11:30:18 +0000