https://www.scmp.com/rss/524196/feed The latest news and top stories on Ng Pak-hang. Born in 1999, he is a prominent Hong Kong athlete competing for the HKSI Pro Cycling Team. Known for his prowess in both track and road events, he notably claimed victory in the elimination race during the men’s events at the Hong Kong Track Championships. His accomplishments include winning the Hong Kong road race championships in 2023 and 2025, and securing gold in the scratch race at the Hong Kong International Track Cup in April 2025. He has... en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Ada Li Ada Li Ceci Lee Sze-wing delivered an “epic, tactically perfect” performance to claim a brilliant elimination-race silver on the first day of her home UCI Track World Cup at Hong Kong Velodrome. With the last rider in the field eliminated every two laps, the triple National Games gold medallist stayed consistently near the front of the peloton before securing the best result of her burgeoning career. Norway’s Anita Yvonne Stenberg took gold, while Valentine Fortin of France claimed bronze. “Winning a... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3350538/epic-hongkonger-ceci-lee-claims-uci-track-world-cup-silver-career-high?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3350538/epic-hongkonger-ceci-lee-claims-uci-track-world-cup-silver-career-high?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 17 Apr 2026 15:04:04 +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 being consumed by nerves on his senior Hong Kong debut earlier this month, Ma Yik-fei will continue his discovery of a “different world” when he competes in the Asian Track Cycling Championships next week. Part of the city’s team pursuit silver medal squad at the UCI Track World Cup in Perth, Ma felt his edgy performance in the gold-medal race cost Hong Kong the chance of challenging powerhouse hosts Australia. Nonetheless, Herve Dagorne had no qualms over choosing a rider long since... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3347297/hong-kong-cycling-hope-discovering-different-world-after-jittery-world-cup-debut?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3347297/hong-kong-cycling-hope-discovering-different-world-after-jittery-world-cup-debut?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 20 Mar 2026 10:00:43 +0000 Stephy Zhang Stephy Zhang Hong Kong will field their strongest squad at the 2026 UCI Track World Cup at home next month, in an event head coach Herve Dagorne has billed the “hardest of the season”. Before that event, which takes place at the Hong Kong Velodrome in Tseung Kwan O from April 17 to 19, the team are targeting 10 medals at the Asian Track Cycling Championships later this month as they build up to the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics. “We really need to be at our best,” Dagorne said. “We need to perform.” Dagorne said... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3346606/hong-kong-field-strongest-team-hardest-season-uci-track-world-cup?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3346606/hong-kong-field-strongest-team-hardest-season-uci-track-world-cup?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 14 Mar 2026 13:00:08 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Ceci Lee Sze-wing announced her arrival on the world stage after claiming a landmark bronze, and Hong Kong made a tremendous start to the UCI Track World Cup in Perth on Friday. The winner of three National Games golds last year, and an Asian Road Cycling Championships mixed relay time trial champion last month, the 24-year-old Lee’s elimination race medal in Australia was her first from a global competition. There was more good news for the city squad when the men’s team pursuit quartet of Ng... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3345784/hong-kong-cyclists-make-flying-world-cup-start-ceci-lee-claims-landmark-medal?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3345784/hong-kong-cyclists-make-flying-world-cup-start-ceci-lee-claims-landmark-medal?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 07 Mar 2026 01:54:06 +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 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 When he was named the city’s cycling head coach in March last year, Herve Dagorne briefly paused to consider that “all the guys who brought medals to Hong Kong had retired”. In their place were young, enthusiastic and willing riders, but no one who could yet hold a candle to Sarah Lee Wai-sze, Leung Chun-wing, Cheung King-lok, Pang Yao, Leung Ka-yu, Ko Siu-wai, or reaching further back, the inimitable Wong Kam-po. “I had to start with a new generation, there were no leaders, they had been the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3330432/dagorne-rebuilds-hong-kong-cycling-ground-after-medal-era-ends?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3330432/dagorne-rebuilds-hong-kong-cycling-ground-after-medal-era-ends?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Oct 2025 00:00:09 +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 Hervé Dagorne said he was reading nothing into Ceci Lee Sze-wing’s twin triumph on Friday at the Hong Kong Track Championships. Hong Kong’s best rider ruthlessly dominated a five-woman field to win the four-discipline omnium by a mammoth 29 points from nearest challenger Guardiola Cheung Li-tong. The 24-year-old Lee was similarly authoritative in claiming elimination race gold from second-placed Boey Leung Bo-yee. “There was such a big gap in level after her, and it was a very small group,”... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3317021/more-hong-kong-success-ceci-lee-coach-downplays-feats-ahead-china-championships?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3317021/more-hong-kong-success-ceci-lee-coach-downplays-feats-ahead-china-championships?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 04 Jul 2025 12:30:12 +0000