I can challenge for an Olympic medal, says confident Christy Leung, Hong Kong’s brightest Winter Olympics hopeful
Family of 15-year-old are spending HK$1 million a year to send skater to California for training in the hope she will make breakthrough at Beijing Games
Rising figure skating star Christy Leung Yi can’t wait to turn 16 so that she can compete at senior level and prove to the world just how good she can be.
The 15-year-old Hong Kong skater missed this year’s Pyeongchang Games because she didn’t fulfil the required age requirement but next year could be the start of something big for the promising junior, who is already turning heads with her sensational routines.
On Wednesday, Leung, who finished 11th in this year’s World Junior Championships after a ninth-place finish in 2017, gave spectators a glimpse of her undeniable talent by streaking away to gold in the girls’ junior category at the Hong Kong Figure Skating Championships.
The way the teenager glided through the ice was a sight to behold as she entertained a good crowd at the Festival Walk Glazier in Kowloon Tong. Spectators were watching the best ice skater Hong Kong has ever produced and one who could well be a future world ice skating star.
To show the massive gulf between herself and her rivals, Leung claimed gold with a combined score of 165.06 points in the two-day event (short programme plus free skating), with Kahlen Cheung Cheuk-Ka a distant second on 119.46 points. Chow Hiu-yau was third with 106.63.
