李麗珊資料(英文)

LEE Lai-shan



Olympic Gold Medalist







Lee Lai-shan, born in Cheung Chau, is a world-renowned windsurfing athlete. Ms Lee started windsurfing at 12 and joined the Hong Kong team at the age of 19. Over the years, Ms Lee has won many international competitions, including the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong and the first champion in the Asian Games representing Hong Kong, China. She was a recipient of the Ten Outstanding Young Person's Award and Bronze Bauhinia Star Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in international sports scene. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Social Sciences by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.


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李麗珊



奧運金牌得主







享譽國際的滑浪風帆運動員，於長洲成長，十二歲開始參與滑浪風帆運動，十九歲加入香港代表隊。多年來，屢次在國際滑浪風帆賽事中揚威，是首位奪得奧運金牌的香港運動員，以及首位以中國香港名義嬴得亞運冠軍的運動員。她曾被選為香港十大傑出青年，並獲頒銅紫荊星章，以表揚她在國際體壇上的成就。同時，李麗珊亦獲香港中文大學頒授榮譽社會科學博士學位。


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李麗珊，BBS，MH，MBE（1970年9月5日－），外號珊珊（廣東話讀作saan1 saan4，山潺），生於香港，為長洲原居民。她為香港取得歷史性首面奧運會獎牌，更取得金牌（滑浪風帆），因而被傳媒冠以「風之后」的美譽，曾有熱帶氣旋以她命名，卡通片亦加入她的角色，被視為香港最知名的運動員。
李麗珊自幼在舅父黎根的指導下練習滑浪風帆，17歲開始參加比賽，19歲（1989年）成為香港代表隊成員，教練是艾培理。
她多年來獲得數個國際比賽獎項，曾在1996年阿特蘭大奧運會奪得香港歷史上首面奧運會金牌，消息轟動香港，當時她居住的島嶼長洲舉行萬人祝捷會，電視台從她落機抵港一直全程直播，這面金牌曾一度在香港牽起學習滑浪風帆熱潮，她奪獎後激動地向記者說：「香港運動員唔係垃圾」（香港運動員不是垃圾），成為傳頌一時的名句。事源是李麗珊在1990年代一次代表香港參加歐洲滑浪風帆錦標賽時，本來大會想讓出多一點非歐洲人士藉位與不同人士參加，但後來報到者超過限額60人；引來一些歐洲參賽者對一眾香港代表的微言，直指香港運動員是垃圾，為何還要搶奪參賽資格，直至好此次奪獎才一吐烏氣。
Lee Lai-Shan (traditional Chinese: 李麗珊) (born September 5, 1970) is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer born in 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 Olympics and the first champion in the Asian Games representing Hong Kong, China.
Between 1952-1995, Hong Kong had never been able to win any medals at the Olympic Games. Lee Lai-Shan's victory at the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympics changed all this and added a glorious chapter to the region's 44-year Olympic history. 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:




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Hong Kong athletes are not rubbish!
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