李嘉兒

English

Lee Ka-yi is a Hong Kong women's squash player and a graduate of the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, where she earned a BSc in Investment Science - one of the few local athletes to combine elite sport with a demanding degree. She has long been a member of the Hong Kong, China squash team, competing at Asian Games, Asian championships and world team championships. At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games she first won women's team bronze and then partnered Wong Chi-him to bronze in the newly added mixed doubles. At the 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games she had been due to partner Wong Chi-him again in the mixed doubles, but after Wong was injured she teamed up with Donald Tang Ming-hong; the pair saved three match points to beat an Indian pair in the semi-finals and then beat teammates Toby Tse and Lai Cheuk-nam in straight games in an all-Hong Kong final, giving Hong Kong its first-ever Asian Games mixed doubles squash gold and an historic clean sweep of gold and silver in the event. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University publicly congratulated its alumna, noting it was Hong Kong's fourth Asian Games squash gold. She remains a core member of the Hong Kong women's squad.