{"id":519622,"date":"2026-03-07T04:28:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519622\/"},"modified":"2026-03-07T04:28:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:28:09","slug":"hong-kong-cyclists-make-flying-world-cup-start-as-ceci-lee-claims-landmark-medal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/519622\/","title":{"rendered":"Hong Kong cyclists make flying World Cup start as Ceci Lee claims landmark medal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"The five Hong Kong team pursuit riders display their silver medals alongside winners Australia (centre) and bronze medallists Chinese Taipei. Photo: CAHKC\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/82824743-6aff-4575-a2a9-1efc5b00e4b3_d075d88e.jpg\" title=\"The five Hong Kong team pursuit riders display their silver medals alongside winners Australia (centre) and bronze medallists Chinese Taipei. Photo: CAHKC\"\/>The five Hong Kong team pursuit riders display their silver medals alongside winners Australia (centre) and bronze medallists Chinese Taipei. Photo: CAHKC<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">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&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":519623,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[445],"tags":[5806,45,49,48,95,635,46,15674,890,44,927,22429,457,82,61,182,3275],"class_list":{"0":"post-519622","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cycling","8":"tag-asia","9":"tag-business","10":"tag-ca","11":"tag-canada","12":"tag-china","13":"tag-cycling","14":"tag-economy","15":"tag-hong-kong","16":"tag-lifestyle","17":"tag-news","18":"tag-opinion","19":"tag-south-china-morning-post","20":"tag-sport","21":"tag-sports","22":"tag-technology","23":"tag-us","24":"tag-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}