Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics

Hong Kong at the
2020 Summer Olympics
Hong Kong at the; 2020 Summer Olympics
IOC code	HKG
NOC	Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China
Website	www.hkolympic.org (in Chinese and English)
in Tokyo, Japan; July 23, 2021 – August 8, 2021
Competitors	46 in 13 sports
Flag bearers (opening)	Tse Ying Suet; Cheung Ka Long
Flag bearer (closing)	Grace Lau
Medals; Ranked 49th	Gold 1 Silver 2 Bronze 3 Total 6
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)
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Hong Kong competed at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, marking the territory's seventeenth appearance at the Summer Olympics since its debut as a British colony in 1952.^[1] More medals were won at the 2020 Summer Olympics by athletes representing Hong Kong than ever before, and Hong Kong also won its first gold medal since the handover back to China.^[2]

Medalists

Medal	Name	Sport	Event	Date
Gold	Cheung Ka Long	Fencing	Men's foil	26 July
Silver	Siobhan Haughey	Swimming	Women's 200 m freestyle	28 July
Silver	Siobhan Haughey	Swimming	Women's 100 m freestyle	30 July
Bronze	Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Minnie Soo Wai Yam	Table tennis	Women's team	5 August
Bronze	Grace Lau	Karate	Women's kata	5 August
Bronze	Lee Wai Sze	Cycling	Women's Sprint	8 August

Competitors

The following list specifies the number of competitors for Hong Kong in each sport.

Sport	Men	Women	Total
Athletics	1	1	2
Badminton	2	2	4
Cycling	1	5	6
Equestrian	1	0	1
Fencing	4	4	8
Golf	0	1	1
Gymnastics	1	0	1
Karate	0	1	1
Rowing	0	1	1
Sailing	1	2	3
Swimming	2	7	9
Table tennis	4	4	8
Triathlon	1	0	1
Total	18	28	46

Athletics

Hong Kong received a male universality slot from IAAF to send one athlete to the Olympics, while one female athlete qualified by world ranking.^[3]

Key

Note–Ranks given for track events are within the athlete's heat only
Q = Qualified for the next round
q = Qualified for the next round as a fastest loser or, in field events, by position without achieving the qualifying target
NR = National record
N/A = Round not applicable for the event
Bye = Athlete not required to compete in round

Track & road events

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Result	Rank	Result	Rank	Result	Rank
Chan Chung Wang	Men's 110 m hurdles	14.23	8	Did not advance
Ching Siu Nga	Women's 20 km walk	—				1:37:53	35

Badminton

Hong Kong entered four badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings: one entry each in the men's and women's singles and a pair in the mixed doubles.^[4]

Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ng Ka Long	Men's singles	Muñoz (MEX) W (21–9, 21–10)	Cordón (GUA) L (20–22, 13–21)	—	2	Did not advance
Cheung Ngan Yi	Women's singles	Polikarpova (ISR) W (21–15, 15–21, 21–16)	Sindhu (IND) L (9–21, 16–21)	—	2	Did not advance
Tang Chun Man Tse Ying Suet	Mixed doubles	Chan / Goh (MAS) W (21–18, 10–21, 21–16)	Wang Yy / Huang Dp (CHN) L (12–21, 18–21)	Lamsfuß / Herttrich (GER) W (22–20, 20–22, 21–16)	2 Q	—	Ellis / Smith (GBR) W (21–13, 21–18)	Zheng Sw / Huang Yq (CHN) L (16–21, 12–21)	Watanabe / Higashino (JPN) L (17–21, 21–23)	4

Cycling

Road

Hong Kong received a spare berth freed up by host nation Japan to send one rider to the men's Olympic road race, as the highest-ranked nation for men, not yet qualified, in the UCI World Ranking.^[5]^[6]

Athlete	Event	Time	Rank
Choy Hiu Fung	Men's road race	Did not finish

Track

Following the completion of the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships, Hong Kong riders obtained spots in the women's omnium and women's madison, as well as the women's sprint and keirin, based on their country's results in the final UCI Olympic rankings.^[7]

Sprint

Athlete	Event	Qualification		Round 1	Repechage 1	Round 2	Repechage 2	Round 3	Repechage 3	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final
Athlete	Event	Time Speed (km/h)	Rank	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Opposition Time Speed (km/h)	Rank
Lee Hoi Yan	Women's sprint	11.232 64.103	28	Did not advance
Lee Wai Sze	Women's sprint	10.538 68.324	9 Q	Krupeckaitė (LTU) W 11.196 64.309	Bye	Marchant (GBR) L	Godby (USA) W 11.402 63.147	Gros (FRA) W 11.201 64.280	Bye	Marchant (GBR) W 10.861 W 10.958	Starikova (UKR) L, L	Hinze (GER) W 11.110 W 11.283

Keirin

Athlete	Event	1st Round	Repechage	2nd Round	3rd Round	Final
Athlete	Event	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank	Rank
Lee Hoi Yan	Women's keirin	4	4	Did not advance
Lee Wai Sze	Women's keirin	3	1	1	5	8

Omnium

Athlete	Event	Scratch race		Tempo race		Elimination race		Points race		Total points	Rank
Athlete	Event	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Rank	Points	Points	Rank	Total points	Rank
Pang Yao	Women's omnium	DNF	16	19	4	16	10	0	DNF	−40	DNF

Madison

Athlete	Event	Points	Laps	Rank
Leung Bo Yee Pang Yao	Women's madison	0	−40	13

Equestrian

Hong Kong entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition for the first time in 12 years and finished in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania).^[8]

Eventing

Athlete	Horse	Event	Dressage		Cross-country			Jumping						Total
			Dressage		Cross-country			Qualifier			Final			Total
			Penalties	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Total	Rank	Penalties	Rank
Thomas Heffernan Ho	Tayberry	Individual	46.70	61	55.60	102.30	48	17.20	119.50	42	Did not advance			119.50	42

Fencing

For the first time since Seoul 1988, Hong Kong fencers entered a full squad in the men's team foil and women's team épée as the highest-ranked nation from Asia outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.^[9]

Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Cheung Ka Long	Men's foil	Bye	Mertine (FRA) W 15–12	Foconi (ITA) W 15–3	Borodachev (ROC) W 15–14	Choupenitch (CZE) W 15–10	Garozzo (ITA) W 15–11
Cheung Siu Lun		Sanità (GER) L 14–15	Did not advance
Ryan Choi		Bye	Van Haaster (CAN) W 15–10	Shikine (JPN) L 6–15	Did not advance
Cheung Ka Long Cheung Siu Lun Ryan Choi Lawrence Ng Lok Wang	Men's team foil	—		Bye	ROC L 39–45	Classification semifinal Germany (GER) L 39–45	Seventh place final Egypt (EGY) W 45–21	7
Kaylin Hsieh	Women's épée	Murtazaeva (ROC) L 7–14	Did not advance
Vivian Kong		Bye	Doig (PER) W 15–11	Knapik-Miazga (POL) W 15–8	Murtazaeva (ROC) L 10–15	Did not advance
Coco Lin		Tikanah (SGP) L 11–15	Did not advance
Vivian Kong Kaylin Hsieh Coco Lin Chu Ka Mong	Women's team épée	—			China (CHN) L 32–44	Classification semifinal United States (USA) L 31–42	Seventh place final ROC W 28–27	7

Golf

Hong Kong entered one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Tiffany Chan qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the women's event based on the IGF World Rankings of 29 June 2021.^[10]

Athlete	Event	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round 4	Total
Athlete	Event	Score	Score	Score	Score	Score	Par	Rank
Tiffany Chan	Women's	77	74	69	70	290	+6	=50

Gymnastics

Artistic

Hong Kong entered one artistic gymnast into the Olympic competition, London 2012 Olympian Shek Wai Hung who secured one of the three spots available for individual-based gymnasts but did not qualify for the team, the all-around, or the vault exercise at the 2019 World Championships in Stuttgart, Germany.^[11]

Men

Athlete	Event	Qualification								Final
		Apparatus						Total	Rank	Apparatus						Total	Rank
		F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank	F	PH	R	V	PB	HB	Total	Rank
Shek Wai Hung	Vault	—			14.274	—		14.274	12	Did not advance

Karate

Hong Kong entered one karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. 2018 world bronze medalist Grace Lau qualified directly for the women's kata category by finishing among the top four karatekas at the end of the combined WKF Olympic Rankings.^[12]

Athlete	Event	Elimination round		Ranking round		Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Grace Lau	Women's kata	26.15	2 Q	26.40	2 Q	Bozan (TUR) W 26.94–26.52

Rowing

Hong Kong qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games by finishing first in the B-final and securing the fourth of five berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.^[13]

Athlete	Event	Heats		Repechage		Quarterfinals		Semifinals		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Winne Hung	Women's single sculls	8:17.79	4 R	8:23.58	2 QF	8:36.37	6 SC/D	7:56.30	6 FD	8:02.79	23

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Hong Kong sailors qualified for one boat in each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships and the continental regattas.^[14]

Athlete	Event	Race													Net points	Final rank
Athlete	Event	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	M*	Net points	Final rank
Michael Cheng	Men's RS:X	3	8	8	12	8	9	13	22	15	15	15	13	EL	119	13
Hayley Chan	Women's RS:X	12	8	13	5	7	6	8	14	7	4	8	3	14	95	8
Stephanie Norton	Women's Laser Radial	29	35	37	22	37	33	33	37	41	42	—		EL	304	39

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result

Swimming

Hong Kong swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[15]^[16]

Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
Athlete	Event	Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ian Ho	Men's 50 m freestyle	22.45	32	Did not advance
Ian Ho	Men's 100 m freestyle	49.49	34	Did not advance
William Yan Thorley	Men's 10 km open water	—				1:58:33.40	22
Stephanie Au	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:01.07	26	Did not advance
Siobhán Haughey	Women's 50 m freestyle	24.75	15 Q	DNS		Did not advance
	Women's 100 m freestyle	52.70 AS	2 Q	52.40 AS	2 Q	52.27 AS
	Women's 200 m freestyle	1:56.48	8 Q	1:55.16	2 Q	1:53.92 AS
Camille Cheng Stephanie Au Ho Nam Wai Tam Hoi Lam	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:43.52	15	—		Did not advance
Camille Cheng Siobhán Haughey Toto Wong Jamie Yeung	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:02.86	13	—		Did not advance

Table tennis

Hong Kong entered six athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games, with an additional two alternate athletes for the team tournaments. The men's and women's teams secured one of nine available places, respectively, at the 2020 World Olympic Qualification Event in Gondomar, Portugal, permitting a maximum of two starters to compete in each of the men's and women's singles tournament.^[17]^[18] Moreover, an additional berth was awarded to the Hong Kong table tennis players competing in the inaugural mixed doubles by advancing to the semifinal stage of the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Zhengzhou, China.^[19]

Men

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lam Siu Hang	Singles	Bye	Afanador (PUR) W 4–3	Gnanasekaran (IND) W 4–3	Harimoto (JPN) L 1–4	Did not advance
Wong Chun Ting	Singles	Bye			Chuang C-y (TPE) L 1–4	Did not advance
Ho Kwan Kit Lam Siu Hang Wong Chun Ting	Team	—				France (FRA) L 0–3	Did not advance

Women

Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Doo Hoi Kem	Singles	Bye			Shin Y-b (KOR) W 4–2	Eerland (NED) W 4–1	Chen M (CHN) L 2–4	Did not advance
Minnie Soo Wai Yam	Singles	Bye		Xiao (ESP) L 2–4	Did not advance
Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Minnie Soo Wai Yam	Team	—				Brazil (BRA) W 3–1	Romania (ROU) W 3–1	Japan (JPN) L 0–3	Germany (GER) W 3–1

Mixed

Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
Athlete	Event	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem	Doubles	Szudi / Pergel (HUN) W 4–0	Lebesson / Yuan (FRA) L 3–4	Did not advance

Triathlon

Hong Kong entered one triathlete to compete at the Games for the first time since the 2008. British-born Oscar Coggins secured a place in the men's event by topping the list of individual triathletes from Asia and Oceania vying for qualification based on the ITU World Rankings.^[20]

Athlete	Event	Time						Rank
Athlete	Event	Swim (1.5 km)	Trans 1	Bike (40 km)	Trans 2	Run (10 km)	Total	Rank
Oscar Coggins	Men's	17:54	0:41	56:29	0:28	33:23	1:48:55	33

References

^ "Hong Kong at the Olympic Games". www.topendsports.com. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ "Hong Kong's first Olympic gold since handover brings rare unity". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 10 February 2022.
^ "Road to Olympic Games 2020". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 June 2021.
^ "世羽聯公布東奧資格共172個參賽名額港將伍家朗列男單8號種子" [The Badminton World Federation released 172 Summer Olympics qualifications, Ng Ka Long listed as the number 8 seed in the men's singles]. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). 12 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.
^ Chan, Kin-wa (29 October 2019). "Hong Kong gets boost for 2020 Olympic men's road cycling race with 'unexpected' qualifying spot". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 30 October 2019.
^ "Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". UCI. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.
^ Chan, Kin-wa (10 March 2020). "Tokyo 2020: agony for Hong Kong's cyclists as their Olympic spot is snatched away". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 10 March 2020.
^ "Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI". FEI. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.
^ Chan, Kin-wa (24 February 2020). "Hong Kong fencers book historic appearance at Tokyo Olympics after brilliant performance in Cairo World Cup". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 February 2020.
^ Chan, Tiffany (29 June 2021). "Women's Final Olympic Golf Rankings Published". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
^ "Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019: Day 4 – as it happened". Olympic Channel. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.
^ "WKF announces first qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020". World Karate Federation. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.
^ "Finals racing decides Asia & Oceania Olympic & Paralympic quota spots". International Rowing Federation. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.
^ "Friends win medals at the 2019 RS:X World Championship". World Sailing. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.
^ "FINA – Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Qualification". FINA. Retrieved 23 March 2019.
^ "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 6 March 2021.
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^ Blennerhassett, Patrick (26 April 2021). "Tokyo 2020: Hong Kong triathlete Oscar Coggins qualifies for Olympics as highest-ranked Asian". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

External links

Hong Kong Delegation's Official Website

[1] "Hong Kong at the Olympic Games". www.topendsports.com. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[2] "Hong Kong's first Olympic gold since handover brings rare unity". Nikkei Asia. Retrieved 10 February 2022.

[3] "Road to Olympic Games 2020". World Athletics. Retrieved 11 June 2021.

[4] "世羽聯公布東奧資格共172個參賽名額港將伍家朗列男單8號種子" [The Badminton World Federation released 172 Summer Olympics qualifications, Ng Ka Long listed as the number 8 seed in the men's singles]. Wen Wei Po (in Chinese). 12 June 2021. Archived from the original on 17 July 2021. Retrieved 17 July 2021.

[5] Chan, Kin-wa (29 October 2019). "Hong Kong gets boost for 2020 Olympic men's road cycling race with 'unexpected' qualifying spot". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 30 October 2019.

[6] "Athletes' quotas for Road Cycling events at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games". UCI. 18 November 2019. Retrieved 23 November 2019.

[7] Chan, Kin-wa (10 March 2020). "Tokyo 2020: agony for Hong Kong's cyclists as their Olympic spot is snatched away". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 10 March 2020.

[8] "Tokyo 2020 team and individual quota places confirmed by FEI". FEI. 17 February 2020. Retrieved 1 March 2020.

[9] Chan, Kin-wa (24 February 2020). "Hong Kong fencers book historic appearance at Tokyo Olympics after brilliant performance in Cairo World Cup". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 25 February 2020.

[10] Chan, Tiffany (29 June 2021). "Women's Final Olympic Golf Rankings Published". International Golf Federation. Retrieved 27 January 2022.

[11] "Artistic Gymnastics World Championships 2019: Day 4 – as it happened". Olympic Channel. 7 October 2019. Retrieved 12 October 2019.

[12] "WKF announces first qualified athletes for Tokyo 2020". World Karate Federation. 18 March 2020. Retrieved 19 March 2020.

[13] "Finals racing decides Asia & Oceania Olympic & Paralympic quota spots". International Rowing Federation. 7 May 2021. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

[14] "Friends win medals at the 2019 RS:X World Championship". World Sailing. 29 September 2019. Retrieved 30 September 2019.

[15] "FINA – Olympic Games Tokyo 2020 Qualification". FINA. Retrieved 23 March 2019.

[16] "Tokyo 2020 – FINA Swimming Qualification System" (PDF). Tokyo 2020. FINA. Retrieved 6 March 2021.

[17] Marshall, Ian (24 January 2020). "2020 ITTF World Team Qualification Tournament: Day Three". ITTF. Retrieved 24 January 2020.

[18] Marshall, Ian (26 January 2020). "Nervous moments, Hong Kong China and Korea Republic complete list". ITTF. Retrieved 30 January 2020.

[19] "Zhengzhou review: Olympic champion falls, Olympic places reserved". ITTF. 18 September 2019. Retrieved 19 September 2019.

[20] Blennerhassett, Patrick (26 April 2021). "Tokyo 2020: Hong Kong triathlete Oscar Coggins qualifies for Olympics as highest-ranked Asian". South China Morning Post. Retrieved 20 June 2021.

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