CUHK athletes excelled in the sports competitions of the University Sports Federation of Hong Kong (USFHK), taking two champions and three first runners-up in tennis, handball and the athletic meet. A total of three records have been broken by the athletic team. Chu Man-kai, year-1 student in Physical Education, Exercise Science and Health Programme, clinched gold medal in badminton at Spanish Para Badminton International Vitoria-Gasteiz 2023.

The CUHK men’s and women’s tennis teams won the championship and first runner-up, respectively. The men’s handball team got the first runner-up. In the athletic meet, the CUHK took the championship in women’s overall, the first runner-up in the overall, and broke the records in the women’s javelin, men’s long jump and discus.

The CUHK men’s tennis team face a tough opponent—the University of Hong Kong team in the finally. Eventually CUHK grasped the trophy. The team captain, Pang Fei-lang (Biomedical Sciences/Year 4) quoted  the late American professional basketball player Kobe Bryant, “Rest at the end, not in the middle” to express his feeling of the victory.

Gianne Mak Tsz-yan, a year-5 student in physical Education, exercise science and health (photo below) said, “I am very happy that I was able to break my personal best in my last athletics USFHK athletic meet, as well as the its record in women’s javelin throw!”