Sporting Achievements

Hong Kong athletes participated in several high-profile international
sporting events in 1997 and enjoyed significant success.

A contingent of 51 athletes took part in the Second East Asian Games
held in Pusan, South Korea, in May. Hong Kong athletes won a total of
one gold, five silver and four bronze medals, with the gold medal coming
in one of the wushu events. The silver medals were in athletics, rowing
and wushu, and the bronze medals in judo, rowing, tenpin bowling and
wushu. At the Eighth National Games of the People's Republic of China,
Wong Kam-po won Hong Kong's first National Games gold medal, in the
Men's 180 km Individual Road Race event.

Hong Kong players became champions of the World Amateur Junior and
World Amateur Snooker Championships. At the 1997 World Windsurfing
Championships, Lee Lai-shan won the gold medal in the women's mistral
class event. Hong Kong athletes also performed well at the Fourth World
Wushu Championships. They brought back three gold, four silver and
two bronze medals. At the Third International Sports Organisation for
Disabled World Lawn Bowls Championships, the World Cycling
Championships and the World Junior Squash Championships, Hong Kong
athletes won a total of one gold and four bronze medals. At the 44th
World Table Tennis Championships, Chai Po-wa won a bronze medal in
the women's doubles event. At the 1997 Special Olympic World Winter
Games, Hong Kong athletes won six gold, nine silver and eight bronze
medals in the figure skating and speed skating events.

Hong Kong athletes in badminton, basketball, bodybuilding, bowling,
cycling, equestrian, fencing, judo, rowing, squash, table tennis, triathlon
and windsurfing won a total of nine gold, 11 silver and 13 bronze medals
at their respective Asian Championships in 1997. The 1996 gold-medal
winning 4 x 100 paralympic relay team bettered its own world record at
the Cerebral Palsy - International Sports & Recreation Association World
Games in July.

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