沈曉榆

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Lydia Sham Hiu-yu (born 2000) is a Hong Kong wushu athlete who specialises in changquan (long fist) and studies physiotherapy at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University. She has long been coached by Geng Xiaoling, the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games women's changquan champion who turned to coaching after retiring; sixteen years apart, master and pupil each won the Asian Games women's changquan title, a much-discussed example of continuity in Hong Kong wushu. Sham took up martial arts as a child and also studied dance, swimming and gymnastics. She began with the changquan, jianshu and qiangshu all-around before focusing on changquan, which she has said gives her more time to refine her routines. She made her Asian Games debut at Jakarta 2018 in the women's jianshu and qiangshu all-around. In 2023 she won bronze in the women's qiangshu at the Chengdu Universiade and finished sixth in the jianshu and qiangshu all-around at the Hangzhou Asian Games. In 2025 she won the women's changquan, jianshu and qiangshu all-around at the Chengdu World Games, and placed seventh in the same all-around at the 15th National Games. In July 2026 she took silver in the women's changquan at the 4th IWUF Taolu World Cup with 9.740. At the 2026 Asian Games in Nagoya she was Hong Kong's flag bearer and, aged 26 at her third Games, competed alongside teammate Michelle Yeung and scored 9.713 to win the women's changquan final ahead of Macau's Sou Cho-man (9.710) and an Indonesian athlete, claiming her first Asian Games medal and Hong Kong's first gold of the Games; she said she was proud to stay error-free under the pressure of carrying the flag. Composed and expansive in her movement, she is regarded as a leading figure in Hong Kong's changquan squad.