Hong Kong’s women’s table tennis team has won the historic BRONZE medal at team event in Olympic Games. Professor Stephen Cheung Yan Leung, President of EdUHK, had a dialogue with the two Elite Athlete-students of EdUHK- Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching for congratulating their outstanding performance via Zoom on 6 August 2021.

Hong Kong’s women’s table tennis team has won the historic BRONZE medal at team event in Olympic Games. The team of the two Elite Athlete-students from Bachelor of Health Education (Honours) - Doo Hoi Kem and Lee Ho Ching with another Hong Kong team member, Minnie Soo Wai Yam won 3-1 against Germany’s team. Their tremendous effort, perseverance and resilience finally paid off in Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games! We wish them the very best in their continued endeavors in their sports career and academic studies under the dual pathway that the University pioneer in collaboration with the Hong Kong Sports Institute.

Five students and a graduate of Bachelor of Health Education (Honours) programme at The Education University of Hong Kong will represent Hong Kong to join the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games. They will be participating in four sports, competing for eight titles:

Congratulations to Yuen Sin Ying on winning ‘The Most Valuable Player’ in Badminton Competition (Women)! The award was presented in USFHK Annual Prize Presentation Ceremony held on 11 July 2021.

The USFHK Annual Prize Presentation Ceremony was held on 11 July 2021. EdUHK won the 2nd runner up of the women's overall championship of the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong (USFHK) 2020/21. The student-athlete representatives were proud to bring the trophy to EdUHK.

2021 Tissot UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup (Hong Kong, China) has been completed at Hong Kong Velodrome on 16 May 2021. Ms Sarah Lee Wai-sze, BBS, MH, Honorary Fellow of EdUHK, Graduate of Bachelor of Health Education (Honours) won 1 gold medal and 1 silver medal in Women’s Sprint and Women’s Keirin respectively.

Sportsroad reported on the 2020/21 USFHK Badminton Finals held at the EdUHK on 25 April. The EdUHK team beat the CityU team by 3:0 to win the championship in the women’s badminton final for the first time while the men's team beat the CityU team to win the 2nd runner up in the final. Congratulations to the team!

Sportsroad reported that Lee Ho Ching, the elite athlete-student of Bachelor of Health Education (Honours), has won the gold medal in Women’s Singles (Group A) at Hong Kong Table Tennis Open Championship 2021. Due to current pandemic situation, the Championship was played behind closed doors with participation of top players in Hong Kong Team. Ho Ching expressed that this was a good experience for preparing Olympic Games Tokyo, after the long period of suspension.

HK01 reported that Free Methodist Mei Lam Primary School co-organized a two-week Virtual Sports Day with the Department of Health and Physical Education at EdUHK from 22 February – 5 March 2021 during the COVID-19 pandemic.

As lined up by CO, Ming Pao and Sportsroad reported that EdUHK held the first virtual annual athletics meet themed “Companion” to promote physical and mental health during the pandemic. The athletics meet was organised by students from the Department of Health and Physical Education. They have also worked with kindergartens, primary schools and special education schools to tip pupils and parents on safe exercises online, as well as planning to help other schools to hold virtual sports days.