Lee Lai Shan

Lee Lai Shan
BBS MBE
A wax figure of Lee at Madame Tussauds Hong Kong
Personal information
NicknameSan San
Born (1970-09-05) 5 September 1970 (age 54)
Cheung Chau, Hong Kong
Height170 cm (5 ft 7 in)
Weight59 kg (130 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es)Mistral, Lechner, Raceboard
ClubWindsurfing Association of Hong Kong
Medal record
Women's windsurfing
Representing  Hong Kong
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Board (Mistral)
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 1990 Beijing Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1994 Hiroshima Board (Mistral)
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Kashiwazaki Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1996 Haifa Board (Mistral)
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Port Elizabeth Board (Mistral)
Representing  Hong Kong[note 1][1]
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Bangkok Board (Mistral)
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Board (Mistral)
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Fremantle Board (Mistral)
Gold medal – first place 2001 Varkiza Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1998 Brest Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 2000 Mar del Plata Board (Mistral)
Lee Lai Shan
Traditional Chinese李麗珊
Transcriptions
Yue: Cantonese
Yale RomanizationLéih Laih sāan
JyutpingLei5 Lai6 saan1

Lee Lai Shan BBS MBE (Chinese: 李麗珊, born 5 September 1970 in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong) is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer from Hong Kong. She was the first athlete to win an Olympic medal representing Hong Kong. As of 2024, she is still the only non-fencer to win an Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong.

Sports career

The bib that Lee wore during 1996 Summer Olympics

Lee Lai Shan, popularly known as "San San", was born in Cheung Chau and started windsurfing aged 12. She began to take part in windsurfing competitions at the age of 17 and joined the Hong Kong team at 19. Over the years, Lee won many international competitions, including the first-ever Olympic gold medal for British Hong Kong, in the women's mistral boardsailing class, at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the first champion in the Asian Games representing Hong Kong when it was a British territory.[2]

Hong Kong had never been able to win any medals for as long as it had participated in the Olympic games since 1952 until Lee Lai Shan's victory at Atlanta 1996. Notably, the 1996 Summer Olympics was the last international sporting event that Hong Kong participated in as a British Dependent Territory, making Lee's medal the only medal that the British Hong Kong team won.[3] It was at that time Lee famously declared to the media: "Hong Kong athletes are not rubbish!"[4]

After the Games she became a student of sports management at Australia's University of Canberra in 1996. She was the first Hong Kong athlete to be awarded an honorary Doctorate in social sciences by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.[2]

Lee became a recipient of the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award" and the Bronze Bauhinia Star Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the international sports scene. There is a monument resembling a windsurf board and mast erected in her honour near the beachfront at Cheung Chau.

In the 1997 New Year Honours, she was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) for services to sport.[5]

In 2008, she was the first person to carry the Olympic torch in the torch relay leg in Hong Kong.[6] She was also the final torchbearer in the 2008 Summer Olympics sailing opening ceremony at Qingdao International Marina.

Participation record

Honors

  • 1994 – Named Best Athlete of Asia
  • 1995 –1996 & 1999–2000 – Named one of Hong Kong Sports Stars of the Year for four times
  • 1995 – Selected Best Athlete in Hong Kong for 1994
  • 1998 – Voted one of Hong Kong Top Ten Athletes for 1988–1998 by Hong Kong Sports Press Association
  • 1999 – Selected one of China's Top Ten Athletes for 1998
  • 1999 – Awarded Special Prize in the "Best Athletes of the Century" selection jointly organised by the Chinese Olympic Committee, Henry Fok Foundation and China Sports Press Association

Personal information

Lee married longtime partner Wong Tak-Sum (黃德森) (known in English as Sam Wong), who has also represented Hong Kong internationally in windsurfing, and gave birth to a daughter, Haylie Wong (黃希皚), in August 2005, and to a second daughter, Kallie Wong (黃嘉怡), in August 2007. This was one of the reasons she took a break from competition, though she has not ruled out competing altogether.[7] In 2008, she was involved in the Summer Olympics again when she was one of the presenting team for ATV, in addition to commentating in the sailing event.[7]

In 2006, Lee was featured in a Hang Seng Bank advertisement, in which she said the cost of raising a child in Hong Kong will be HK$4 million (US$510,000). It has caused a slight controversy in Hong Kong as most people do not think it will actually cost that much, and most think that Hang Seng Bank exaggerated the figures.[citation needed]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ The official name of the team in ISAF is Hong Kong, and named Hong Kong, China during Asian Games and Summer Olympics.

References

  1. ^ Medallists and Medal Table, International Sailing Federation
  2. ^ a b "Lee Lai-shan's message to Hong Kong's Rio athletes – they spend millions on you, so don't waste this chance". 28 July 2016.
  3. ^ "Olympic fencing champ says Hong Kong 'insane' after first gold for 25 years". France24. 27 July 2021. Retrieved 9 August 2021.
  4. ^ Info.gov.hk. "Info.gov.hk." SHA's "Letter to Hong Kong". Retrieved on 30 April 2008.
  5. ^ "New Year Honours List 1997". The London Gazette. Retrieved 27 August 2022.
  6. ^ SCMP. "Athletes, politicians and tycoons head torch list ." South China Morning Post Retrieved on 30 April 2008.
  7. ^ a b Golden girl's new role Archived 16 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine South China Morning Post, 30 April 2008

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