Lisa Cheng (Chinese name: 鄭麗莎, Cheng Lai-sho, born 17 February 1986) is a

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champion body builder and speed climber, known as 'Hong Kong's Spider Girl'.

Career

She is a six-time winner of the Hong Kong

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Championships,Lisa Cheng (interview)
, Time Out HK, 30 Jan 2012 and a six-time winner of the Hong Kong Miss Body Fitness title, from 2006 to 2011.Climbing her way to the top
SCMP, 26 August 2011 In 2010 she won the World Bodybuilding Championship, the first Hong Konger to do so. As a member of the Hong Kong National

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Team, she won the 2006 International Mountaineering and Climbing Federation Climbing World Cup, the first Chinese female champion in the world. At home, she was Hong Kong Women’s Speed Climbing Champion in every year from 2003 to 2011, as at 2011. She has moved on to develop a multi-discipline career, including in martial arts. She is licensed as a coach in 10 disciplines, including fitness training, rock climbing,

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and

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. Since 2008, she has been a

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and

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and has partnered with others and open her own fitness gym in

Personal life

Cheng was born and raised in

. She grew up in a relatively low income family; and as a teenager would often sneak out of the house while her parents were asleep to hang out with her friends in bars. She was a lost teenager and wasn't extremely bad, but wanted to do what her friends were doing back then. She began climbing, on a wall in a community centre, at age 12, when she found she had an innate skill for it. At 19, she took a three-year diploma in sports management at the

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, followed by a bachelor's degree in the same field. She was quoted saying:

“I had a hard time catching up with my studies, I didn’t know much about English, plus the textbooks were extremely difficult for me. But I hate to start something without finishing it. Once I choose a road, I must walk until the end.”

After three years’ studying, she managed to graduate ‘with medium scores and no fails’. Outside of competitions, she is a personal trainer and part-time physical education lecturer at the

. On September 20, 2013, she married her boyfriend after two years - Calvin Kong. Their marriage was held in

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Filmography and Theater Act

* ''All's Well Ends Well 2009'' (2009) (film, actor: Kuen) * ''Black Ransom'' (2010) (film, extra/stunt actor) * ''Beating the Classroom'' (2011) (theater, non-verbal physical comedy)
* '' The Constable'' (2013) (film, actor) * '' Dot 2 Dot'' (2014) (film, actor) * ''

Buddy Cops ''Buddy Cops'', also known as ''Holy Beast Cops'' (),"Buddy Cops"
'' Lady Bloodfight'' (2016) (film, actor) * ''Agent Mr Chan'' (2018) * ''We Are Legends'' (2019) Lisa Cheng at chinesemov.com
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References

External links

Official site
* Chinese Wikipedia entry {{DEFAULTSORT:Cheng, Lisa Hong Kong bodybuilders Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 1986 births