The Best achievements of the National Federations – Hong Kong
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Hong Kong’s top highlight was the Seoul 1982 Asian Boxing Championships where their boxers achieved three bronze medals. Their female boxers achieved altogether one silver and one bronze medal in the history of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships as another amazing achievement from the small country.
Hong Kong competed first in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1966 three of their boxers as Lee Kam Wah (51kg), Hon Pak Law (54kg) and Lau Tai Chuen (57kg) represented the small nation. Lau Tai Chuen won his first preliminary bout in the Bangkok 1966 Asian Games and reached the quarter-final of his weight class which was Hong Kong’s first triumph in the history of the event.
Hong Kong attended in the 1970, 1974, 1978, and finally at the 1982 Asian Games and some of their boxers reached the quarter-final. Hong Kong returned to the level of the Asian Games after 40 years of break in the Hangzhou 2023 edition two years ago.
Hong Kong not only attended in the Bangkok 1973 Asian Boxing Championships but Tao Sze Yan won two contests at the featherweight (57kg) by KO and finally claimed the country’s first bronze medal in the history of the event. Their most successful Asian Boxing Championships was the 1982 Seoul edition when Chan Kan Kong (54kg), Lai Wing Ki (63.5kg), and Edmond Wong Pok Cheung (67kg) bagged three bronze medals for Hong Kong in South Korea.
Hong Kong claimed a historical bronze medal at the 2nd edition of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships which took place in Hisar, India in 2003. Tang Pui Ka defeated Nepal’s S. Shrestha in the quarter-finals of the pinweight (46kg) and in spite of her loss in the semi-finals, she achieved a historical bronze medal for Hong Kong. Her teammate Wong Yin Chu secured silver medal in the next edition of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei two years later.
The national team of Hong Kong competed in a few international events in 2019, their management sent the squad to Slovenia, to the Netherlands, to Malaysia, to China, to Indonesia and to Thailand to increase the experiences of their female and male elite boxers.
Hong Kong sent a team also to the 2021 World Boxing Championships, and several previous editions to the ASBC Championships especially in the junior, youth and U22 levels to show their talents in the international stage.
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