Hong Kong at the Olympics

Hong Kong, of which NOK, the Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China, was founded in 1950 and recognized in 1951 by the IOC since 1952 takes part in the Olympic Summer Games. In 1980 he is the call for a boycott of the Games from Moscow. Since 2002, athletes will be sent to Winter Games.

Hong Kong became separated from the United Kingdom with their own teams. At the award ceremony colonial flag was hoisted and played the British national anthem. After 1997, the sovereignty of Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China and is classified as a special administrative region, the NOC of Hong Kong decided to continue to compete with its own team. Since then, at award ceremonies, the flag of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region shall be flown and played the national anthem of China.

With the hosting of the 2008 Summer Olympic Games in Beijing Hong Kong hosted the equestrian events.

A total of 295 athletes entered, including 86 women, at. Athletes from Hongkon have so far won three medals. The first and so far only Olympic victory was recorded in 1996 on the Mistral sails athlete Lee Lai Shan. First male medalist Ko Lai Chak and Li were Ching, who won the silver medal in the men's doubles in table tennis in 2004.

The youngest member of a team from Hong Kong in 2004 was the swimmer Yip Tsz Wa, who went to the start at the age of 13 years. The marksman Hoo Kam Chiu in 1964 at the age of 54 years, the oldest participant.

Overview of participants

Summer Games

Winter Games

Summer Games

List of medalists

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