The 2022 award list has been released. In recent years, Hong Kong's sports performance has made rapid progress. Many athletes and coaches are on the list, including Zhang Jialang, who won the gold medal at the Tokyo Olympics last year, Li Huishi, "the female car god under the cow", and He Shibei, the "Hong Kong female flying fish".
Former Chief Executive Carrie Lam said she was particularly pleased that more than 30 people from the sports world were on the award list this year, praising Hong Kong athletes and coaches for their unprecedented achievements in the 2020 Tokyo Olympic and Paralympic Games and other major sports events.
In addition, famous artist Wang Mingquan was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star, "Uncle Ray" Guo Limin was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star, and famous director Lam Chao-yin was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star.
▼Tokyo Olympic foil final Zhang Jialang won gold▼
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Karate Liu Mushang receives Medal of Honor
A total of 28 people were awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star this year, including several award-winning athletes, including Zhang Jialang, who won the gold medal in men's foil at the Tokyo Olympics last year.
The head coach of the fencing team, Cheng Siu-kang, was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia, while the coach of the foil team, Mr Gregory Andre Maurice KOENIG (Greg Koenig), was awarded the Medal of Honor.
Liu Mushang, who won the bronze medal in women's karate at the Tokyo Olympics, and Mr. William Nicholas THOMAS, the coach of the karate team, were awarded the Medal of Honor.
Li Huishi was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star.
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Li Huishi and Shen Jinkang both won the Silver Bauhinia
Li Huishi, who won the bronze medal in the cycling race at the Tokyo Olympic venues, was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star this year, which is the second time after winning the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2017.
Shen Jinkang, the head coach of the Hong Kong Cycling Team, who has successively trained players such as Jin Jinbao and Li Huishi, was also awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star.
Li Siying's teammate, Li Siying, who won the gold medal in the women's individual road race at the National Games, won the Chief Executive's Community Service Award.
▼Relive the moment when He Shibei won silver in the women's 100m freestyle at the Tokyo Olympics▼
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He Shibei wins two silver medals and breaks Asian record
Another female sports player to be awarded the Silver Bauhinia is Ho Shibei. She won silver medals in both the women's 100m and 200m freestyle events at the Tokyo Olympics last year, breaking an Asian record and becoming the first time Hong Kong has won an Olympic swimming event.
He Shibei won the championship in the 200m freestyle at 1:50.31 at the short-course swimming world championships in the same year, breaking the world record and setting a new Hong Kong sports history.
The Hong Kong Swimming Team head coach Chen Jianhong and Ho Shibei's coach Mr Richard William BISHOP (Rick Bishop) were also awarded the Medal of Honor.
Huang Hanyan, who won 5 gold medals in swimming in the National Paralympic Games, and Zhang Cuiqi, who won 4 golds and 1 silver, and coach Liang Shuying both received the Chief Executive's Community Service Award.
Eight members of the East Olympic and Paralympic table tennis teams received awards
Du Kaiqin, Su Huiyin and Li Haoqing, who won bronze in the women's table tennis team competition in the East Olympics, and Wang Tingzhen, who won the bronze medal at the Tokyo Paralympics, all received the Medal of Honor.
The National Paralympic gold medal winners, Li Mingye and Tang Zhiming, were awarded the Chief Executive's Certificate of Community Service.
The head coach of the Hong Kong table tennis team, Chen Konghua, and the coach of the women's table tennis team of the Paralympic Hong Kong team, Chen Xu, were awarded the Medal of Honor.
▼Tokyo Paralympic Boccia Mixed BC4 Doubles ▼
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Famous hardball player Liang Yu was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia
Leung Yuk, a famous Hong Kong hard court player who won 1 silver and 1 bronze in the Paralympic Games, was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia, while Leung Yuk Wing's partners Lau Wai Yin and Wong Kwan Hang, who won silver in the mixed hard court doubles, and coach Kwok Kerong were awarded the Medal of Honor.
Tokyo Paralympic wheelchair badminton bronze medallists Chen Haoyuan and coach Liu Nanming were both awarded the Medal of Honor.
Wang Mingquan was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Uncle Ray and the Silver Bauhinia
In the performing arts sector, Chairman of the Arts Development Council and Chairman of the Film Development Council, Wong Ying-wai, was awarded the Grand Bauhinia Medal.
Wang Mingquan, who has worked in the performing arts for more than 50 years, was awarded the Gold Bauhinia Star in recognition of his achievements in the arts and cultural circles in Hong Kong, especially his important contributions to the revitalization, promotion and inheritance of Cantonese opera.
The "Uncle Ray" Guo Limin, who hosted Hong Kong's longest-running radio program "All the Way with Ray" and was deeply loved by music fans, was awarded the Silver Bauhinia Star.
Lin Chaoxian, director of "Beast Police", "Magic Police" and "Operation Red Sea", was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star.
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