Lee Lai-shan

Lee Lai-shan 李麗珊
Nationality:	Hong Kong
Birthday:	5th September 1970
Place of birth:	Cheung Chau , Hong Kong
Size:	170 cm
Weight:	59 kg
Boat classes:	Windsurfing (Mistral)
Medal table
Olympic games 1 × 1 × 0 × Asian Games 2 × 2 × 0 × World championships 3 × 3 × 1 ×
Olympic games gold 1996 Atlanta Windsurfing (Mistral)  Asian Games silver 1990 Beijing Windsurfing (Mistral) silver 1994 Hiroshima Windsurfing (Mistral) gold 1998 Bangkok Windsurfing (Mistral) gold 2002 Busan Windsurfing (Mistral)  Sailing world championships gold 1993 Kashiwazaki Windsurfing (Mistral) bronze 1995 Port Elizabeth Windsurfing (Mistral) silver 1996 Haifa Windsurfing (Mistral) gold 1997 Femantle Windsurfing (Mistral) silver 1998 Brest Windsurfing (Mistral) silver 2000 Mar del Plata Windsurfing (Mistral) gold 2001 Varkiza Windsurfing (Mistral)

Lee Lai-shan ( Chinese  李麗珊 ; born September 5, 1970 in Cheung Chau ) is a former sailor from Hong Kong . She became Olympic champion in windsurfing at the 1996 Summer Olympics .

Career

Lee Lai-shan started windsurfing at the age of 12. She first competed at the age of 17 and joined the Hong Kong team two years later. During this time she won many international competitions. For example, she won the silver medal at the Asian Games in 1990 and 1994 and the gold medal in 1998 and 2002 . At the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta , she won the first and so far only gold medal for Hong Kong. Overall, she competed in all four Olympic Games from 1992 to 2002. In 1993, 1997 and 2001 she also became world champion in windsurfing.

After the Games, she began studying sports management at the University of Canberra .

Lee received the "Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award" and the Bronze Bauhinia Star Award for her outstanding achievements in the international sports scene. A memorial was erected for her near the beach in her home, Cheung Chau .

At the 2008 Olympic torch relay , she was the first person to carry the torch in Hong Kong.

Web links

• Local Heroes No 29: Lee Lai-shan: Wind in gold medallist's sails (English)
• Lee Lai-shan in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Nazvi Careem: Lee Lai-shan's message to Hong Kong's Rio athletes - They spend millions on you, so do not waste this chance. In: South China Morning Post. July 28, 2016, accessed August 25, 2019 .