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Hong Kong Sports Institute

Hong Kong Sports Institute
The Hong Kong Sports Institute is a centre of excellence for Hong Kong sport in Fo Tan. It provides grants, coaching and training facilities for elite athletes with the goal of improving the standard of sport in Hong Kong. Sports are assessed on two- and four-year cycles to see if they meet performance benchmarks. The current elite sports supported by the Institute are: athletics, badminton, billiard sports, cycling, fencing, gymnastics, karatedo, rowing, rugby sevens, squash, swimming, table tennis, tenpin bowling, triathlon, windsurfing and wushu.
Charles Ng celebrates winning the city’s National Road Championships road race last year. Photo: Sam Tsang
UCI Track Cycling World Cup

Hong Kong cyclist Charles Ng aiming high after making ‘new start’ in golden 2025

City rider set for UCI Track World Cup debut in Perth, ‘pushing new power’ following productive winter and Asian road crown.

Herve Dagorne

Cycling coach says professor role will not compromise Hong Kong’s hunt for glory

Hong Kong sports

Fok welcomes ‘inspiring’ budget, says Asian Games will be part of funding review

Herve Dagorne

Hong Kong cycling head coach Dagorne plans legacy goals after signing new deal

Frenchman wants to create booming city cycling department, raises doubts over future of sprint coach.

Herve Dagorne with leading cyclists Chloe Leung (centre) and Ceci Lee after the pair’s National Games Madison gold. Photo: Karma Lo
Herve Dagorne

Hong Kong cycling star Chloe Leung’s ‘mental gains’ spark Olympic Games belief

Increasingly consistent 29-year-old aiming for world tour recognition following Asian Championships golden breakthrough.

Herve Dagorne

Hong Kong cyclists ‘not proud of themselves’ after missed medal opportunity

City squad finish Asian Road Cycling Championships women’s road race empty-handed after missing pivotal breakaway.

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Ceci lee

Hong Kong claim ‘incredible, beautiful’ gold at Asian Road Cycling Championships

City team beat favourites Kazakhstan to claim victory in mixed relay time trial for first continental title since 2018.

The Hong Kong team (from left): Chloe Leung, Franco Chu, Ceci Lee, Vincent Lau, Yang Qianyu, Charles Ng and Herve Dagorne. Photo: Cycling Association of Hong Kong, China.
Herve Dagorne

Hong Kong’s Chloe Leung narrowly pipped to Asian cycling gold in Saudi Arabia

The 29-year-old is beaten to top honours by Kazakhstan’s Rinata Sultanova but city squad already on course for two-medal target.

Herve Dagorne

Hong Kong pin Asian cycling medal hopes on Lee, as coach waits for contract news

Ceci Lee will lead city’s challenge at Asian Road Cycling Championships in Saudi Arabia. Head coach Herve Dagorne’s contract close to ending.

Hong Kong, China Association of Athletics Affiliates

Hong Kong long jumper Tiffany Yue happy to deal with Asian Games funding pressure

Bronze medallist from 2022 Games among athletes set to shoulder burden of winning medals in Japan to help team retain HKSI Tier A status.

Hong Kong long jumper Tiffany Yue is rebuilding her technique after an injury-plagued National Games outing last year. Photo: handout

Hong Kong shuttler slams ‘outrageous’ state of Youth Olympics medal lent to HKSI

‘Are you kidding me?’ says Yoyo Ng in social media post of the gold medal, which she won at the 2014 Nanjing Games.

Hong Kong’s Yoyo Ng (front) and Cheam June Wei of Malaysia won the mixed doubles gold medal at the 2014 Youth Olympic Games in Nanjing. Photo: Xinhua
2025 National Games

Opinion | From flights of fancy to reality, National Games paves way for a bright future

Hosting the Olympics is no longer a pipe dream for Hong Kong, now it just needs to get its athletes in line.

Cheung Ka-long

The rise of fencing, a Hong Kong sport obsession – an infographic

Explore fencing - once a niche sport in Hong Kong, but now more popular because of gold-winning performances.

ITTF

Tokyo Olympics hero Soo announces retirement, sheds ‘tears of gratitude’

Minnie Soo was part of Hong Kong women’s table tennis team that won historic bronze medal at 2020 Games.

Hong Kong’s (from left) Lee Ho-ching, Minnie Soo Wai and Doo Hoi-kem celebrate winning bronze at the Tokyo Olympics. Photo: EPA-EFE
Swimming

Asian Youth Games success hints at coming golden generation for Hong Kong

Swimmers add exclamation point to delegation’s historic performance in Bahrain, with medal tally highest ever.

Members of the Hong Kong swimming team celebrate their success at the Asian Youth Games. Photo: SF&OC

Distance runner Au claims Hong Kong’s first medal at Asian Youth Games

Au Ho-chun claims bronze in men’s 1,500m, posting personal best time in race won by Sri Lanka’s Achintha Lahiru with Games record.

World Athletics Championships

Explainer | Why Hong Kong’s fastest marathon runner was exiled by athletics chiefs

How a sponsorship deal and a switch of accommodation spiralled into a stand-off between Wong Wan-chun and the HKAAA.

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2025 National Games

Hong Kong’s top marathon runner misses World Championships amid rift with HKAAA

Wong Wan-chun, who was not in Hong Kong team for Olympics and could be absent from National Games, says he has been snubbed by bosses.

Wong Wan-chun is not currently part of the Hong Kong athletics team. Photo: Edmond So
LCSD

Hong Kong to revamp sports events funding, new emphasis on ‘high economic value’

‘M’ Mark funding to be made ‘more strategic, effective and precise’, Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism Rosanna Law says.

Hong Kong sports

World Games wushu silver for Hong Kong’s Cheung after Ho’s bruising squash loss

Cheung Yat-lam beaten to men’s 70kg gold while fellow sanda exponent Chan Tsz-ching, like Ho, loses in bronze match.

Hong Kong sports

Wakesurfer Harry Cheng wins Hong Kong’s fourth medal at World Games in Chengdu

The city’s medal tally has now reached four, after top-of-the-podium wins through wushu and karate on Friday and Saturday.

Hong Kong’s Harry Cheng, making his debut in a world event, came third in the men’s wake surf skim in Chengdu on Sunday. Photo: SF&OC
Grace Lau Mo-sheung

Grace Lau wins Hong Kong’s first World Games medal in Chengdu with karate gold

Hongkonger beats Japanese opponent in Chengdu to improve on her bronze at the last edition in United States.

Grace Lau celebrates on the podium after winning Hong Kong’s first medal at the World Games in Chengdu in the karate kata event on Friday. Photo: Reuters
Swimming

Ex-Hong Kong athlete swims 360km around Swedish island in mental health battle

Karl Palmqvist, a Swedish national who once trained with the Hong Kong Sports Institute, completes swim around Gotland in 21 days.

2025 National Games

Hong Kong joy for Ceci Lee but coach downplays feats before China Championships

Star rider completes win double on opening day of local track championships, as Hervé Dagorne closes in on track endurance coach.

2025 National Games

Turning stress into fuel: Hong Kong cyclist sets bold Olympic medal target

Mindset shift helping 24-year-old’s talent to surface as she sets sights on Los Angeles and Brisbane Games.

Ceci Lee in Paris at last year’s Olympic Games road race. Photo: SF&OC
Triathlon

Hong Kong triathletes set for National Games rehearsal in Chinese championships

Large squad poised for National Championships, with qualification for November’s Games races up for grabs.

Jason Ng (right) is among the Hongkongers who will aim for a National Games berth this weekend. Photo: Eugene Lee
2025 National Games

Hong Kong cycling star Ceci Lee does title double after mindset shift

The 24-year-old storms to time trial and road race wins. Chu Tsun-wai takes men’s time trial title, with Ng Pak-hang taking road race crown.

Ceci lee

Why Hong Kong’s star cyclist Ceci Lee wants a different title this year

Olympian has reason for targeting a first time-trial crown at National Road Championships on Saturday.

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