{"id":523903,"date":"2026-03-07T04:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523903\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:08:09","slug":"hong-kong-cyclists-make-flying-world-cup-start-as-ceci-lee-claims-landmark-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/523903\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cyclists make flying World Cup start as Ceci Lee claims landmark medal"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ceci Lee Sze-wing announced her arrival on the world stage after claiming a landmark bronze, and Hong Kong made a tremendous start to the UCI Track World Cup in Perth on Friday.<\/p>\n

The winner of three National Games golds last year, and an Asian Road Cycling Championships mixed relay time trial champion last month, the 24-year-old Lee\u2019s elimination race medal in Australia was her first from a global competition.<\/p>\n

There was more good news for the city squad when the men\u2019s team pursuit quartet of Ng Pak-hang, Mow Ching-yin, Tso Kai-kwong and 18-year-old debutant Ma Yik-fei secured silver behind the hosts.<\/p>\n

The medals broke Hong Kong\u2019s almost five-year competition duck, dating back to a Sarah Lee Wai-sze-inspired haul of two gold and one silver from a home UCI Track Cycling Nations Cup leg in May 2021.<\/p>\n

For Hong Kong, this first of three 2026 World Cup legs is doubling as preparation for the Asian Track Cycling Championships later this month.<\/p>\n

\"TheThe five Hong Kong team pursuit riders display their silver medals alongside winners Australia (centre) and bronze medallists Chinese Taipei. Photo: CAHKC<\/p>\n

But Lee is eyeing bigger prizes, and her first step onto a world podium, earned after she summoned a thrilling surge to squeeze out home rider Maeve Plouffe when four of the 11 starters were left, represented another significant stop in her journey to world championships and Olympic honours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ceci Lee Sze-wing announced her arrival on the world stage after claiming a landmark bronze, and Hong Kong…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":523904,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[569],"tags":[1724,64,63,99,512,784,164,10340,1625,44,1721,28765,588,85,105,2489,1720],"class_list":["post-523903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cycling","tag-asia","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-business","tag-china","tag-cycling","tag-economy","tag-hong-kong","tag-lifestyle","tag-news","tag-opinion","tag-south-china-morning-post","tag-sport","tag-sports","tag-technology","tag-us","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=523903"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/523903\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/523904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=523903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=523903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=523903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}