Hong Kong Athletes Shine with Four Medals at 20th Asian Games, Including Silver in Karate and Bronze in Swimming.

2026-09-23 21:07 Last Updated At：21:18

SCST congratulates Tsang Yee-ting, Natalie Kan, Howard Hung, Li Chi-kong, Tang Yu-hin and Chan Tsz-ching on winning medals in Asian Games

The Secretary for Culture, Sports and Tourism, Miss Rosanna Law, today (September 23) extended her congratulations to Hong Kong, China athletes on continuing to achieve excellent results at the 20th Asian Games, with four medals won today, including karate athlete Tsang Yee-ting winning a silver medal in Women's Kumite -50kg; swimming athlete Natalie Kan winning a bronze medal in Women's 100m Butterfly; karate athletes Howard Hung, Li Chi-kong and Tang Yu-hin winning a bronze medal in Men's Team Kata; and wushu athlete Chan Tsz-ching winning a bronze medal in Women's 52kg sanda.

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SCST congratulates Tsang Yee-ting, Natalie Kan, Howard Hung, Li Chi-kong, Tang Yu-hin and Chan Tsz-ching on winning medals in Asian Games Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

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SCST congratulates Tsang Yee-ting, Natalie Kan, Howard Hung, Li Chi-kong, Tang Yu-hin and Chan Tsz-ching on winning medals in Asian Games Source: HKSAR Government Press Releases

Miss Law said, "Karate athletes delivered an outstanding performance today, with Tsang Yee-ting, Howard, Li Chi-kong and Tang Yu-hin achieving excellent results, winning one silver and one bronze medal. Natalie broke the Hong Kong record in Women's 100m Butterfly and won a bronze medal. Chan Tsz-ching achieved a breakthrough for the wushu sanda team, winning a bronze medal at the Asian Games for the first time. I hope Hong Kong citizens will continue to fully support the Hong Kong, China athletes in striving for further success at the Asian Games."

The Hong Kong, China Delegation has so far won sixteen medals, namely three gold, six silver and seven bronze, at the Asian Games. The four medals won today are as follows:

Silver medal

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Wushu: Women's Kumite -50kg

Tsang Yee-ting

Bronze medals

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Swimming: Women's 100m Butterfly

Natalie Kan

Karate: Men's Team Kata

Howard Hung, Li Chi-kong, Tang Yu-hin

Karate: Women's 52kg sanda

Chan Tsz-ching

Health Departments Enhance Emergency Response Through WHO's Annual Exercise Crystal Collaboration

DH participates in WHO's large-scale health exercise in Western Pacific Region to enhance emergency preparedness and cross-sectoral collaboration for foodborne diseases

The Department of Health (DH) today (September 23), in collaboration with the Food and Environmental Hygiene Department and the Agriculture, Fisheries and Conservation Department, participated in the annual large-scale table-top exercise, Exercise Crystal, organised by the World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Office for the Western Pacific (WPRO). The exercise aimed to enhance emergency response mechanisms and cross-sectoral collaboration capabilities between Hong Kong, China, the WHO and neighbouring regions in addressing public health emergencies.

This exercise simulated a scenario in which suspected food contamination caused illnesses among a number of residents, in order to test relevant government departments' response plan, prevention and control measures and co-ordination efforts on foodborne diseases, as well as to share the information swiftly with the WHO through the established mechanism.

Since 2008, WHO WPRO has conducted the Exercise Crystal annually to strengthen the coordination capabilities of member countries and regions in preventing and responding to cross-regional public health emergencies. Meanwhile, the WPRO ensures that different focal points responsible for enforcing the International Health Regulations maintain close communication with each other, and are familiar with the response mechanism to public health emergencies. The WHO WPRO debriefed participants after the exercise and gave recognition for the participants' emergency response and collaboration mechanisms.

Being one of the focal points between Hong Kong, China and the WHO, the Centre for Health Protection of the DH has actively participated in the exercise for years to strengthen communication and information sharing mechanisms between Hong Kong, China and the WHO WPRO, and the respective focal points in other regions, in order to continuously optimise Hong Kong’s inter-departmental coordination mechanisms for responding to different public health emergencies.

The DH will consolidate the experience gained from this exercise and, in collaboration with other departments, review the current response mechanisms for interdepartmental co-ordination and preventive measures in a timely manner, so as to make more forward-looking arrangements to comprehensively safeguard public health.

Hong Kong Athletes Shine with Four Medals at 20th Asian Games, Including Silver in Karate and Bronze in Swimming.

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