李嘉龍

English

Lee Ka-lung is a Hong Kong male skateboarder who competes in the street discipline. Born in 1986, he took up skating well before the sport became popular and has spent years practising in the streets and local skate parks, making him one of the territory's more experienced skaters. Since skateboarding became an official Asian Games sport at Jakarta 2018, the number of Hong Kong skaters competing internationally has grown; at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games Hong Kong fielded four skateboarders - Luk Chun-yin, Lee Ka-lung, Yu Long and Lui Yi-ting - its largest contingent to date. Lee made his Asian Games debut for Hong Kong, China in the men's street event, saying on arriving at the athletes' village that he was excited, would try his best without being too nervous, and hoped to learn from the competition; he competed alongside teammate Luk Chun-yin. In November of the same year he joined Yu Long and former Hong Kong representative Piet Guilfoyle at the street skating challenge of the Lee Garden Skateboarding Festival 2023 in Paterson Street, Causeway Bay, where they exchanged skills with world-class skaters from Japan. In 2024 he took part in the street competition of the skateboarding demonstration event newly added to the ninth Hong Kong Games, finishing second in the men's open category behind Yu Long. He believes platforms such as the Hong Kong Games let more residents try skateboarding and hopes to attract more young newcomers. Having come up in an era when skate culture was still niche, he has seen the sport move from a street pastime towards regulation and competition, and uses his own experience to encourage a new generation to take it up.