王蘊妮

English

Wong Wan-yi (Mimi) is a Hong Kong speed roller skater. She took up roller skating at a young age, first in the artistic discipline, joined the Hong Kong roller skating team in 2004 and switched to speed roller skating in 2006, going on to set Hong Kong records over several distances, including the 300m and 500m on the track and the 10,000m on the road, making her a multiple record holder in women's speed roller skating in the territory. Her elder sister Wong Yin-chi was also a former Hong Kong speed roller skater who finished fifth in the 500m at the Asian championships and took silver in the 5,000m points elimination race at the national roller speed championships; the two sisters represented Hong Kong in turn. Internationally, she competed at the 2021 World Speed Roller Skating Championships in Ibague, Colombia, coming through the qualifying round of the women's 10km elimination race to reach the final, where she finished twenty-second overall and fourth among Asian skaters. In 2023 she represented Hong Kong, China at the Hangzhou Asian Games, finishing sixth in both the women's 10,000m points elimination race and the 1,000m sprint; in the 1,000m sprint she qualified for the final in eighth place and was the only skater starting from the second row, racing three times across the heats, semi-final and final before finishing sixth. Speed roller skating has long been outside Hong Kong's tier of priority elite sports, with limited venues and resources, and skaters often train in urban rinks and parks; Wong has persisted through those constraints and is one of the leading figures in the discipline locally.