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Hong Kong Sports Institutei

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.

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The city’s elite athletes have enjoyed unparalleled success in recent years. But many challenges lie ahead with a need to improve the training, facilities and opportunities available to Hong Kong’s talented sportspeople.

The incident is a good lesson for sporting groups in that if they do not seriously follow the guidelines to uphold the dignity of symbols of national sovereignty, it is the athletes who will ultimately suffer.

Fencer’s Edgar Cheung Ka-long and Vivian Kong Man-wai and Hong Kong men’s football team have added to the city’s success at last year’s Tokyo Olympics with exceptional results. Their achievements have provided welcome relief from the city’s ongoing battle with Covid-19

The number of Hong Kong athletes qualifying for the Tokyo Olympic Games is in no small part down to the government’s understanding of the importance of sport and fitness to the city. This has not always been the case.

  • Attendances at three-day event were poor, with even the sessions featuring the best riders failing to fill more than half the 1,500 available seats
  • Organisers said the government had not stipulated any attendance figure; an ‘M’ mark qualifies for up to HK$15 million in financial support

Olympic hopeful struggles under weight of her own expectation during Sunday’s Nations Cup omnium race, says she was ‘thinking about all the people who wanted us to have good results’.

Hong Kong head coach Herve Dagorne considering pulling plug on Ceci Lee Sze-wing’s Madison Olympic bid, telling 22-year-old to go all out for omnium qualification

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Cycling head coach Herve Dagorne is confident Lee will manage the ‘stress’ of racing in a home Nations Cup, in which crucial Olympic qualification points are up for grabs.

Coggins is back in training but has been advised to focus his sights on the 2025 National Games, while Hilda Choi Yan-yin is set to return after injuring a finger before the Asian Games.

Several athletes have accused the association of withholding government funds, something officials have denied. Now a Hong Kong lawmaker has urged the government to step in.

Matthew Tung was lent a Hong Kong tracksuit by a footballer, and could only use the gym at Hong Kong Sports Institute during his lunch break, yet achieved a record result for the city.

She makes the podium in the women’s elimination race as the city’s riders seek to bring winning mentality back home before Hong Kong hosts the UCI Nations Cup.

A high-quality, training camp in Australia has Ceci Lee in ‘race mode’ for the biggest year of her young career, no-holds-barred competition down under removes fear from track racing.

The swimmer, busy collecting medals at the world championships, is a contender in the women’s category, while fencer Cheung Ka-long, golfer Taichi Kho and tennis’ Coleman Wong feature in the men’s list.

Cheung Ka-wai ‘can’t believe it’ after becoming only the fourth Hongkonger to hit the big time by earning a place on the professional World Snooker Tour circuit.

The city needs the kind of sporting tradition that has fuelled Irish success despite a small population, new Sports Institute CEO Tony Choi argues, warning public cash alone won’t guarantee Olympic glory.

Hong Kong must clinch places at the Games before there can be any medal targets, Sports Institute CEO Tony Choi says, adding the city should manage expectations after its best ever Olympic haul in 2021.

Over the past decade Hong Kong has invested tens of billions of dollars in its pursuit of sporting success. This series examines where that money has gone, whether it was spent well, and what comes next.  

Olympic medallist Haughey’s ex-coach warns of lack of facilities and international exposure for coaches, with sporting bodies in dark over new venues and Olympic committee telling government to ‘speed up’.

As another Olympic year dawns, taxpayers are once again forking out hundreds of millions of dollars on the city’s athletes, but is sporting glory for Hong Kong worth the money spent on it?

Review of Asian Games will not be released, with government-funded sports institute saying it’s too technical for the public and officials declining to discuss performance criteria largely unchanged since 2005.

Men’s rugby sevens team claimed gold for a second Games in a row and are regular winners of the team sport award – but the city’s footballers will rival them for the prize this time.

Shaun Liu wins opening encounter at World Snooker Tour event in Swansea, and at 13 years old becomes youngest winner of a game at televised ranking event.

Mostafa Asal aims to recreate feeling of triumph at Hong Kong Squash Open, after watching last year’s final to maintain spirits during recent 12-week ban for poor on-court behaviour