Yu Chui Yee
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Yu Chui Yee |
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| Type of disability (class): | amputation | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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 Hong Kong
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| Birthday: | March 30, 1984 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Yu Chui Yee (born March 30, 1984 ) is a wheelchair fencer from Hong Kong . She has won seven gold medals at Paralympic Games so far .
Career
Yu Chui Yee developed bone cancer at the age of eleven and had to have her left leg amputated. Yee, who then began actively as a swimmer, switched to wheelchair fencing at the age of 17. Within a very short time she achieved a good place among the best in her country. At the age of 20 she started at the 2004 Summer Paralympics in Athens , where she won all four gold medals in the individual and team disciplines in foil and with a sword. This made her the first female athlete to win four gold medals in this sport for the first time.
At the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing , she was unable to repeat the success of 2004 and only won a gold medal in the foil individual and silver in the epee individual. The team competitions were canceled in Beijing. Four more years later she won gold again with the foil and also secured the bronze medal in the foil team classification. At the wheelchair fencing world championships in 2013 , she was world champion both individually and as a team. In 2015, she only secured a bronze medal at the World Cup.
Web links
- Yu Chui Yee at the International Paralympic Committee
- Yu Chui Yee medal results at the Paralympic Games
Individual evidence
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| SURNAME | Yee, Yu Chui |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chinese wheelchair fencer (Hong Kong) |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 30, 1984 |