Lai Shan Lee
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Representing  Hong Kong
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| Olympic Games | ||
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1996 Atlanta | Board (Mistral) |
| Asian Games | ||
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1990 Beijing | Board (Mistral) |
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1994 Hiroshima | Board (Mistral) |
| World Championships | ||
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1993 Kashiwazaki | Board (Mistral) |
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1996 Haifa | Board (Mistral) |
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1995 Port Elizabeth | Board (Mistral) |
Representing  Hong Kong
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| Asian Games | ||
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1998 Bangkok | Board (Mistral) |
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2002 Busan | Board (Mistral) |
| World Championships | ||
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1997 Fremantle | Board (Mistral) |
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2001 Varkiza | Board (Mistral) |
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1998 Brest | Board (Mistral) |
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2000 Mar del Plata | Board (Mistral) |
| Lee Lai-shan | |||||||||
| Traditional Chinese | 李麗珊 | ||||||||
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| Yue: Cantonese | |
| Yale Romanization | Léih Laih sāan |
| Jyutping | Lei5 Lai6 saan1 |
Lee Lai-Shan MBE BBS (Chinese: 李麗珊) (born in Cheung Chau, Hong Kong, 5 September 1970) is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer from Hong Kong. She was the only athlete to win an Olympic medal representing British Hong Kong, before the territory's transfer to China in 1997, and remains the only person to win an Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong.
Lee Lai-Shan, popularly known as "San San", was born in Cheung Chau and started windsurfing aged 12. She began to take part in windsurfing competitions at the age of 17 and joined the Hong Kong team at 19. Over the years, Lee won many international competitions, including the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong, in the women's mistral boardsailing class, at the 1996 Summer Olympics and the first champion in the Asian Games representing Hong Kong when it was a British colony.
Hong Kong had never been able to win any medals for as long as it had participated in the Olympic games since 1952 until Lee Lai-Shan's victory at Atlanta 1996. Notably, the 1996 Summer Olympics was the last international sporting event that Hong Kong participated in as a British colony, making Lee's medal the first and last medal that the Hong Kong team (not Hong Kong, China) won. It was at that time Lee famously declared to the media: "Hong Kong athletes are not rubbish!"
After the Games she became a student of sports management at Australia's University of Canberra in 1996. She was the first Hong Kong athlete to be awarded an honorary Doctorate in social sciences by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.
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