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Lai Shan Lee

Lee Lai-shan
Medal record
Women's windsurfing
Representing  Hong Kong
Olympic Games
Gold medal – first place 1996 Atlanta Board (Mistral)
Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 1990 Beijing Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1994 Hiroshima Board (Mistral)
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1993 Kashiwazaki Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1996 Haifa Board (Mistral)
Bronze medal – third place 1995 Port Elizabeth Board (Mistral)
Representing  Hong Kong
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 1998 Bangkok Board (Mistral)
Gold medal – first place 2002 Busan Board (Mistral)
World Championships
Gold medal – first place 1997 Fremantle Board (Mistral)
Gold medal – first place 2001 Varkiza Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 1998 Brest Board (Mistral)
Silver medal – second place 2000 Mar del Plata Board (Mistral)
Lee Lai-shan
Traditional Chinese 李麗珊

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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