Highlights of the ASBC National Federations – Hong Kong achieved its best result at the 1982 Asian Boxing Championships
The Asian Boxing Confederation introduces the best moments of its affiliated Asian National Federations launching a new PR campaign, the Highlights of the ASBC National Federations. Hong Kong’s first highlight was the Seoul 1982 Asian Boxing Championships where their boxers achieved three bronze medals. Their female boxers achieved altogether one silver and one bronze medal in the history of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships.
Hong Kong sent boxers to the Olympic Games only one time in 1964 which edition took place in Japan’s capital in Tokyo. Hon Pak Law knocked out his first opponent, Spain’s Agustin Senin at the bantamweight (54kg) in the Olympics which is Hong Kong’s lone triumph in the history of the Games.
Hong Kong competed first in the Asian Games in Bangkok in 1966 three of their boxers as Lee Kam Wah (51kg), Hon Pak Law (54kg) and Lau Tai Chuen (57kg) represented the small nation. Lau Tai Chuen won his first preliminary bout in the Bangkok 1966 Asian Games and reached the quarter-final of his weight class which was Hong Kong’s first triumph in the history of the event.
Hong Kong attended in the 1970, 1974, 1978, and finally at the 1982 Asian Games and some of their boxers reached the quarter-final. Hong Kong is planning to return to the level of the Asian Games after 40 years of break in the upcoming Hangzhou 2022 edition.
Hong Kong not only attended in the Bangkok 1973 Asian Boxing Championships but Tao Sze Yan won two contests at the featherweight (57kg) by KO and finally claimed the country’s first bronze medal in the history of the event. Their most successful Asian Boxing Championships was the 1982 Seoul edition when Chan Kan Kong (54kg), Lai Wing Ki (63.5kg), and Edmond Wong Pok Cheung (67kg) bagged three bronze medals for Hong Kong in South Korea.
Hong Kong claimed a historical bronze medal at the 2nd edition of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships which took place in Hisar, India in 2003. Tang Pui Ka defeated Nepal’s S. Shrestha in the quarter-finals of the pinweight (46kg) and in spite of her loss in the semi-finals, she achieved a historical bronze medal for Hong Kong. Her teammate Wong Yin Chu secured silver medal in the next edition of the Asian Women’s Boxing Championships in Kaohsiung, Chinese Taipei two years later.
The national team of Hong Kong competed in a few international events in 2019, their management sent the squad to Slovenia, to the Netherlands, to Malaysia, to China, to Indonesia and to Thailand to increase the experiences of their female and male elite boxers.
Hong Kong sent a team to the Asian & Oceanian Olympic Boxing Qualifying Event to Amman where one female and four male boxers represented the country. Among them the professional world champion Tso Sing Yu advanced to the quarter-finals of the featherweight (57kg) but lost his bouts in the last eight and in the Box-off.
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