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Hong Kong Sports Institute

Hong Kong Sports Institute
The Hong Kong Sports Institute is a centre of excellence for Hong Kong sport in Fo Tan. It provides grants, coaching and training facilities for elite athletes with the goal of improving the standard of sport in Hong Kong. Sports are assessed on two- and four-year cycles to see if they meet performance benchmarks. The current elite sports supported by the Institute are: athletics, badminton, billiard sports, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, karatedo, rowing, rugby sevens, squash, swimming, table tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing and wushu.
Hong Kong’s Yoyo Ng (front) and Cheam June Wei of Malaysia won the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. Photo: Xinhua

Hong Kong shuttler slams ‘outrageous’ state of Youth Olympics medal lent to HKSI

‘Are you kidding me?’ says Yoyo Ng in social media post of the gold medal, which she won at the 2014 Nanjing Games.

2025 National Games

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Cheung Ka-long

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Tokyo Olympics hero Soo announces retirement, sheds ‘tears of gratitude’

Minnie Soo was part of Hong Kong women’s table tennis team that won historic bronze medal at 2020 Games.

Hong Kong’s (from left) Lee Ho-ching, Minnie Soo Wai and Doo Hoi-kem celebrate winning bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: EPA-EFE
Swimming

Asian Youth Games success hints at coming golden generation for Hong Kong

Swimmers add exclamation point to delegation’s historic performance in Bahrain, with medal tally highest ever.

Distance runner Au claims Hong Kong’s first medal at Asian Youth Games

Au Ho-chun claims bronze in men’s 1,500m, posting personal best time in race won by Sri Lanka’s Achintha Lahiru with Games record.

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World Athletics Championships

Explainer | Why Hong Kong’s fastest marathon runner was exiled by athletics chiefs

How a sponsorship deal and a switch of accommodation spiralled into a stand-off between Wong Wan-chun and the HKAAA.

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Wong Wan-chun has broken Hong Kong records at 10km, half-marathon and marathon. Photo: Edmond So
2025 National Games

Hong Kong’s top marathon runner misses World Championships amid rift with HKAAA

Wong Wan-chun, who was not in Hong Kong team for Olympics and could be absent from National Games, says he has been snubbed by bosses.

LCSD

Hong Kong to revamp sports events funding, new emphasis on ‘high economic value’

‘M’ Mark funding to be made ‘more strategic, effective and precise’, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law says.

Hong Kong sports

World Games wushu silver for Hong Kong’s Cheung after Ho’s bruising squash loss

Cheung Yat-lam beaten to men’s 70kg gold while fellow sanda exponent Chan Tsz-ching, like Ho, loses in bronze match.

Cheung Yat-lam (red) during his wushu 70kg semi-final win over Chinese Taipei’s Zhang Huan-yi in Chengdu. Photo: AFP
Hong Kong sports

Wakesurfer Harry Cheng wins Hong Kong’s fourth medal at World Games in Chengdu

The city’s medal tally has now reached four, after top-of-the-podium wins through wushu and karate on Friday and Saturday.

Hong Kong’s Harry Cheng, making his debut in a world event, came third in the men’s wake surf skim in Chengdu on Sunday. Photo: SF&OC
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Grace Lau wins Hong Kong’s first World Games medal in Chengdu with karate gold

Hongkonger beats Japanese opponent in Chengdu to improve on her bronze at the last edition in United States.

Swimming

Ex-Hong Kong athlete swims 360km around Swedish island in mental health battle

Karl Palmqvist, a Swedish national who once trained with the Hong Kong Sports Institute, completes swim around Gotland in 21 days.

2025 National Games

Hong Kong joy for Ceci Lee but coach downplays feats before China Championships

Star rider completes win double on opening day of local track championships, as Hervé Dagorne closes in on track endurance coach.

Ceci Lee, with Law Ching-kiu in her shadow, breezes to elimination race gold. Photo: Edmond So
2025 National Games

Turning stress into fuel: Hong Kong cyclist sets bold Olympic medal target

Mindset shift helping 24-year-old’s talent to surface as she sets sights on Los Angeles and Brisbane Games.

Ceci Lee in Paris at last year’s Olympic Games road race. Photo: SF&OC
Triathlon

Hong Kong triathletes set for National Games rehearsal in Chinese championships

Large squad poised for National Championships, with qualification for November’s Games races up for grabs.

2025 National Games

Hong Kong cycling star Ceci Lee does title double after mindset shift

The 24-year-old storms to time trial and road race wins. Chu Tsun-wai takes men’s time trial title, with Ng Pak-hang taking road race crown.

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Why Hong Kong’s star cyclist Ceci Lee wants a different title this year

Olympian has reason for targeting a first time-trial crown at National Road Championships on Saturday.

Ceci Lee (centre, in front) in road race action for Hong Kong. Photo: SF&OC
Triathlon

Hong Kong snatch triathlon bronze after rival disqualified

Sichuan disqualification lifts Hong Kong into third in Taizhou, but coach plays down result with focus on National Games selection.

Triathlon

Bailee Brown makes comeback as Hong Kong triathletes compete in Taizhou race

Head coach Andrew Wright content with city team’s showing in Taizhou, Wong Tsz-to and Cade Wright both claim top-10 finishes.

Triathlon

Hong Kong triathlete Brown to return from injury ordeal in mainland China race

City team sending 16-strong contingent to Asia Triathlon Cup in Taizhou on Saturday, although four prominent figures are skipping event.

Bailee Brown is set for a competitive return after being sidelined for six months because of a serious finger injury. Photo: Elson Li
World Snooker

World champ Zhao says Hong Kong snooker hopefuls should move to UK to succeed

China’s newest sporting star believes his move to Britain as a teenager was a key element in his rise to the top.

Zhao Xintong (centre) has urged Hong Kong’s snooker players to move to the United Kingdom for better training facilities. Photo: Xinhua
World Athletics Championships

Hong Kong ‘great’ base for Team GB athletes starting World Championships quest

Toby Harries targeting more Olympic glory after sacrificing potential international rugby career and coming back from brink of retirement.

Triathlon

Hong Kong triathletes pause friendships as National Games selection gets serious

Head coach Andrew Wright says training together can be a disadvantage, but is optimistic about progress at Chengdu World Triathlon Cup.

Hong Kong China Rugby

India’s RPL circuit ‘will be high-quality sevens experience’ for Hong Kong

Head of city’s sevens set-up sees Rugby Premier League as opportunity but wants end to 15s fixture clashes so ‘we can have proper go’.

Michael Coverdale (right) in action against China at this year’s Hong Kong Sevens. Photo: Elson Li
Triathlon

Hong Kong duo’s ‘chronic’ Asia Triathlon Cup swims give coach National Games fear

Cade Wright, Hilda Choi left in mainland Chinese rivals’ wake in Dexing as coach warns swim legs need fixing or National Games ‘pointless’.

Cade Wright needs to improve in the water to compete for National Games medals. Photo: Eugene Lee
Triathlon

Hong Kong triathlete Hilda Choi looks to Asia Cup in National Games quest

A number of city’s leading triathletes are sitting out Dexing race to prepare for Chengdu World Cup next month.

Tse Ying-suet

Olympic golden duo Vivian Kong, Cheung Ka-long win Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards

Gold medal pair named best of the best, with Siobhan Haughey and Coleman Wong among other athletes honoured.

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