Lee Sze Wing
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| Born | 5 May 2001 Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Ceci Lee Sze Wing (born 5 May 2001) is a Hong Kong professional racing cyclist currently competing for HKSI Pro Cycling Team.[1][2] She rode in the women's omnium event at the 2020 UCI Track Cycling World Championships in Berlin, Germany.[3]
Career
[edit]Junior years (2019–2021)
[edit]Lee initially competed in triathlon. Because cycling was her weakest discipline there, she did additional cycling training and eventually turned to this sport entirely.[4] As a junior, she won several titles in road races and individual time trials at Hong Kong team and Asian championships in 2018 and 2019. Also as a junior, she won the Hong Kong scratch race championship on the track ahead of Lee Wai Sze. She won a bronze medal at the 2020 Asian Championships, which were brought forward to October 2019.[5]
Senior years (2021–present)
[edit]In the following years, competition was very limited as a result of the COVID-19 Pandemic. In September 2021, Lee won the road race at the Chinese National Games.[4] At that time, she was studying health education at the Education University of Hong Kong.[6] At the end of 2022, she won the Chinese Omnium Championships. 2023 was her most successful year to date: she became Hong Kong road race champion and won several medals at Asian Championships and Asian Games. At the 2023 Tour of Chongming Island, she rode with the Hong Kong national team for the first time in the UCI Women's WorldTour. In 2024, she was again Hong Kong road race champion. At the 2024 Olympic Games, she was nominated for both the road race and the Omnium; in the road race she came 66th and in the Omnium she came 20th.[7]
At the 2025 Asian Championships, Lee won her first title as Asian Champion in scratch.
She has represented Hong Kong at several road and track world championships. In an interview, she complained that she was unable to spend much time in her hometown because she had to train in other parts of China because of the traffic there.[4]
Lee competed in the women's individual road race and track cycling events at the 2024 Paris Olympics. She completed the 158km road race in 4 hours 10 minutes 47 seconds, finishing 64th, becoming the first female Hong Kong athlete to do so.[8] She then competed in the track cycling event, performing well in all four events and finishing 20th overall.[9] She is the first female Hong Kong athlete to compete in both the road and track cycling events at the Olympics.[10]
On September 26, 2021, she won the first National Games women's road race championship in Hong Kong's history, which was also the second gold medal for the Hong Kong team at the 2021 National Games of China. After the game, Lee Sze Wing declared the following: "I am very happy... Losing in the all-around competition was a bit of a blow, but winning the gold medal made me very happy! I never thought I would achieve such a result. ... Without the efforts of the team, today's competition would not have been successful."[11]
Major results
[edit]- 2018
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 2nd Time trial
- Asian Championships
- 3rd Junior Time trial
- 8th Junior Road race
- 2019
- National Junior Road Championships
- 1st Road race
- 1st Time trial
- 1st Asian Championships, Junior Road race
- 2023
- 1st Road race, National Road Championships
References
[edit]- ^ "Lee Sze Wing". ProCyclingStats. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ "Teenage rider Lee Sze-wing can be Hong Kongs future star, says coach Shen Jinkang". South China Morning Post. 29 November 2019. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ "Women's Omnium: Start List". UCI. Retrieved 28 February 2020.
- ^ a b c "Pedal to the medal: Hong Kong cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing has eyes set on Paris Olympics after Asian Games success". South China Morning Post. 16 October 2023.
- ^ "2019 Hong Kong Track Cycling National Championships – Scratch". Union Cycliste Internationale. 7 July 2019.
- ^ "22 EdUHK Students and Alumni Compete at National Games". EduHK. 27 September 2021.
- ^ "巴黎奧運｜港隊單車兩新丁征奧 李思穎兼項出戰 劉允祐鬥公路賽" (in Chinese). hk01.com. 9 July 2024.
- ^ "2024年巴黎奧運會李思穎參賽情況". Archived from the original on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "2024年巴黎奧運會李思穎場地賽成績". Archived from the original on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "李思穎奧運歷史意義". Archived from the original on 5 October 2023. Retrieved 15 August 2024.
- ^ "〈港將李思穎全運公路單車奪金〉". 頭條日報. 香港頭條日報出版. 27 September 2021. p. 2.
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