The year 2016 was most fruitful for the sons and daughters of Hong Kong. A prime example was Rex Tso the ‘Wonder Kid', the professional boxer with 20 straight victories under his belt, including the October defeat of Ryuto Maekawa of Japan in the super flyweight contest, Battle of Victors, at the Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre.

The pair of Ng On-yee and Wan Ka-kai won the World Ladies Snooker Championship of the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker Association in England in March.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Billiards Sports Control Council)

Snooker player Marco Fu Ka-chun won the Scottish Open in Glasgow in December.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Billiards Sports Control Council)

Angus Ng Ka-long took the men's singles crown at the Hong Kong Open Badminton Championships in November.

At 13 years old, windsurfer Mak Cheuk-wing reigned supreme in the girls'under-15 category of the Techno 293 World Championships on Lake Garda, Italy, in October.
(Photo courtesy of Windsurfing Association of Hong Kong)

Fencer Cheung Ka-long struck gold in the men's foil individual at the Asian Fencing Championships in Wuxi in April.
(Photo courtesy of Hong Kong Fencing Association)

Captain Hank Cheng came home in November after an 11-week trip that took in 20 countries on the first made-in-Hong Kong plane, Inspiration.

Football trainer Chan Yuen-ting was named the Asian Football Confederation Women's Coach of the Year in Abu Dhabi in December.
(Photo courtesy of Eastern Long Lions Football Team)

The Hong Kong team won 79 medals, including 27 golds, at the World Rope Skipping Championships in Sweden in July and August.

Professor Shum Kar-ping, also known as the father of the Hong Kong Mathematical Olympiad, received the Paul Erdös Award 2016 from Professor Peter Taylor, executive member of the World Federation of National Mathematics Competitions, at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He was the first Hong Kong academic to win the international award.
(Photo courtesy of CUHK)

Mr Thomas Chee King-hei, a Master of Architecture graduate of CUHK, received the Royal Institute of British Architects' silver medal from the institute's president, Ms Jane Duncan, in London in December. He was Hong Kong's first winner in the institute's 180-year history.
(Photo courtesy of CUHK)