Lui Lai Yiu

Lui Lai Yiu
nation	Hong Kong
birthday	30th November 1994 (age 25)
place of birth	Hong Kong , China
size	177 cm
Weight	62 kg
Career
discipline	100 meter hurdles
Best performance	13.32 s
status	active
Medal table
Asian Games 0 × 0 × 1 × Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games 1 × 0 × 0 × U20 Asian Championships 0 × 0 × 1 ×
Asian Games bronze Jakarta 2018 100 m hurdles Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games gold Ashgabat 2017 60 m hurdles Junior Asian Championships bronze Colombo 2012 100 m hurdles
last change: May 7, 2019

Lui Lai Yiu (born November 30, 1994 in Hong Kong ) is a hurdler from Hong Kong.

Athletic career

Lui Lai Yiu gained her first international experience at the 2010 Asian Junior Championships in Hanoi , where she finished sixth in 17.31 s. Two years later she won the bronze medal at the Junior Asian Championships in Colombo in 14.59 s and in 2013 she was fifth at the East Asian Games in Tianjin . In 2014 she took part in the Asian Games in Incheon , South Korea for the first time , retired in the hurdles sprint with 13.99 s in the first round and reached eighth place in the Hong Kong 4 x 100 meter relay in 46.14 s. In 2015 she was eliminated in the preliminary round at both the Asian Championships in Wuhan and the Summer Universiade in Gwangju . In 2016 she took part in the 60 meter hurdles at the Asian Indoor Championships in Doha and was disqualified there in the preliminary run.

In 2017 she again took part in the Asian Championships in Bhubaneswar , where she finished seventh in 13.89 s. At the Summer Universiade in Taipei , she made it to the semifinals. At the beginning of September she won the gold medal at the Asian Indoor & Martial Arts Games in Ashgabat with a new best of 8.41 w in front of the Thai Suchada Meesri . In 2018 she again took part in the Asian Games in Jakarta , where she won the bronze medal in 13.42 m. The following year she finished fourth at the Asian Championships in Doha with a new national record of 13.32 seconds.

In 2017 and 2018 Lui became Hong Kong champion in the 100 meter hurdles. She graduated from the Hong Kong Chinese University with a degree in Business Management .

Personal best

• 100 m hurdles: 13.32 s (+1.3 m / s), April 24, 2019 in Doha ( Hong Kong record )
  • 60 m hurdles (hall): 8.41 s, September 18, 2017 in Ashgabat

Web links

• Lui Lai Yiu in the database of World Athletics (English)

Note: This article places the family name before the person's first name. This is the usual order in Chinese. Lui is the family name here, Lai Yiu is the first name.