Tokyo Paralympics: Hong Kong hopes alive as three boccia bowlers make the quarters

Yeung Hiu-lam in BC2 and Vivian Lau Wai-yan in BC4 maintain perfect records with final group game victories at Tokyo Games

Rio 2016 individual gold medallist Leung Yuk-wing joins them but Wong Kwan-hang, Ho Yuen-kei and Tse Tak-wah miss out

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Hong Kong's Vivian Lau Wai-yan in action at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Photo: Hong Kong Paralympic Committee

Published: 8:28pm, 30 Aug 2021Updated: 9:22am, 31 Aug 2021

Three of Hong Kong’s boccia bowlers make it to the knockout stage of the individual tournaments at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games with the final group matches at the Ariake Gymnastics Centre, though there was disappointment for the other three athletes.

Yeung Hiu-lam wrapped the day up with a 4-3 comeback win over Abilio Valente of Portugal, who had taken a 2-0 lead in the first end of the match before the Hongkonger scored four unanswered points.

The 27-year-old ends the BC2 pool stage with a perfect record of three wins from three, following a 7-1 triumph over Rastislav Kurilak of Slovakia and a 6-1 victory over Japan’s Takayuki Hirose

Yeung, who was sixth in London in 2012 then 21st in Rio four years later, won bronze at the Asian Para Games in 2018.

Hong Kong's Leung Yuk-wing in action at the Tokyo 2020 Paralympic Games. Photo: Hong Kong Paralympic Committee

She will play Maciel Santos of Brazil in her quarter-final as she looks for a first Paralympic Games medal, where she will be joined by Vivian Lau Wai-yan.