Hong Kong at the Paralympics

Hong Kong at the
Paralympics
IPC code HKG
NPC Hong Kong Sports Association for the Physically Disabled
Medals
Gold
40
Silver
37
Bronze
49
Total
126
Summer appearances

Hong Kong made its Paralympic Games début at the 1972 Summer Paralympics in Heidelberg, and has taken part in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics. It has never participated in the Winter Paralympics.[1]

The country's first gold medals came in 1984, when Hong Kong won the women's 4 × 400 m Relay in categories 2-5 in athletics. Mui Y. L. also won an individual gold in the women's 1,500m, category 3; and Fung Yuet Wah took gold in the women's individual foil (categories 4-5) in wheelchair fencing. Table tennis was the source of all three gold medals won in 1992, as Hong Kong players won the women's team event in category 5, the men's team in category 4, and Kwong Kam Shing won the men's singles in category 5.

In 1996, it was the men's 4 × 100 m relay (T34) which yielded gold in athletics, accompanying four gold medals in men's wheelchair fencing events. Wheelchair fencing has provided gold medals for Hong Kong in every subsequent edition of the Summer Paralympics, as has athletics. Lai Wai Ling added a gold medal in table tennis (category 11) in 2000, whereas boccia provided two gold in 2004, and one in 2008. Hong Kong's most successful competitors, with five gold medals each, are Yu Chui Yee, Chan Yui Chong and Fung Ying Ki, all in wheelchair fencing.[2]

Medal table

Event Gold Silver Bronze Total Ranking
1972 Summer Paralympics011229th
1976 Summer Paralympics012331st
1980 Summer Paralympics012335th
1984 Summer Paralympics3591727th
1988 Summer Paralympics027942nd
1992 Summer Paralympics3441128th
1996 Summer Paralympics5551527th
2000 Summer Paralympics8371821st
2004 Summer Paralympics11711917th
2008 Summer Paralympics5331126th
2012 Summer Paralympics3361234th
2016 Summer Paralympics222640th

See also

References

  1. ↑ Hong Kong at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
  2. ↑ Hong Kong at the Paralympics, International Paralympic Committee
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