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HK takes silver in women's sabre at Asian Para Games

Hong Kong, China won silver in the women's sabre team event on Saturday at the Asian Para Games. The SAR quartet of Yu Chui-yee, Lam Ka-man, Tong Nga-ting and Chung Yuen-ping fell to the national team 16-30 in the gold-medal match. Thailand took bronze. In the men's competition, Lee Sheung-ho, Kwong Yuen-hing, Leung Siu-lun and Sean Glass narrowly missed out on a place on the podium after losing…

The Hong Kong women's sabre team, consisting of Yu Chui-yee, Lam Ka-man, Tong Nga-ting, and Chung Yuen-ping, earned a silver medal at the Asian Para Games after falling 16-30 to the national team. Thailand secured the bronze in that event. In the mixed team event, the Hong Kong SAR team claimed bronze by defeating the national team 20-17. The men's sabre team, including Lee Sheung-ho, Kwong Yuen-hing, Leung Siu-lun, and Sean Glass, finished without a medal after a 10-30 loss to Thailand.

In other Asian Para Games results, Nitesh Kumar won gold in the men's singles para badminton event and a silver medal in mixed doubles with Thulasimathi Murugesan. Additionally, Wong Kar Gee won gold in the men's long jump T12 in Nagoya, Japan, with a leap of 6.74 metres. Sevinchbek Khusanov of Uzbekistan took second place with 6.54m, while Daiki Ishiyama of Japan finished third with 6.48m.

Brief written by urgent.news from RTHK News, New Straits Times, Malay Mail, Free Press Journal — 4 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.

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