Lee Ho Ching (born 24 November 1992) is a Hong Kong
table tennis
Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...
player.
She qualified for the
2016 Summer Olympics in
Rio de Janeiro
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, and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the
women's singles and the
women's team
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. At the
2020 Summer Olympics, she won a bronze medal with
Doo Hoi Kem
Doo Hoi Kem (; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a bronze medal ...
and
Minnie Soo Wai Yam in the
women’s team event.
Early years
Lee graduated from
St. Rose of Lima's School and studied at
Diocesan Girls' School
Diocesan Girls' School (DGS) (), and Diocesan Girls’ Junior school, one of the oldest girls' schools in Hong Kong and a well known secondary and primary school in Kowloon, HK, was founded in 1860 by the Anglican (Episcopalian) Church (Hong ...
. She dropped out at 15 years old to pursue a full-time athletic career.
Career
2021
Lee competed in the
Tokyo Olympics in
women’s team with
Doo Hoi Kem
Doo Hoi Kem (; born 27 November 1996) is a Hong Kong table tennis player. She won two medals at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics and she was a member of Hong Kong women's team at the 2014 World Team Championships. In 2015, she won a bronze medal ...
and
Minnie Soo Wai Yam. They won bronze after beating Germany with 3-1, earning Hong Kong’s first medal in the Olympics team event and second medal in table tennis.
See also
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Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics
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. More medals were won at the 2020 Summer Olympics by athletes repre ...
References
External links
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1992 births
Living people
Hong Kong female table tennis players
Olympic table tennis players of Hong Kong
Table tennis players at the 2012 Summer Olympics
Table tennis players at the 2016 Summer Olympics
Asian Games medalists in table tennis
Table tennis players at the 2014 Asian Games
Table tennis players at the 2018 Asian Games
Asian Games silver medalists for Hong Kong
Asian Games bronze medalists for Hong Kong
Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games
Expatriate table tennis people in Japan
Table tennis players at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic medalists in table tennis
Medalists at the 2020 Summer Olympics
Olympic bronze medalists for Hong Kong
21st-century Hong Kong women
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