蔡穎姿

English

Choi Wing Chi, known by her English name Sandy (Chinese: 蔡穎姿; born 20 May 1999), is a Hong Kong female sailor who specialises in the 49erFX skiff. A former elite windsurfer, she represented Hong Kong in windsurfing at the 2014 Summer Youth Olympics in Nanjing, finishing sixth, before switching to sailing around 2020, making her one of the territory's rare dual-discipline athletes at the top level of both windsurfing and sailing. She has said she gave herself two years to progress in the windsurfing squad before deciding to make the change, a process she found far from easy as she had to adapt to the technical and physical demands of sailing, but through which she recovered her resolve and determination. In the 2022/23 academic year she was admitted to the University of Hong Kong under its inaugural top athletes admission scheme and was one of six athletes - including tennis player Coleman Wong - each awarded an HK$400,000 HKU Lee Shau Kee Top Athletes Scholarship; she began a Bachelor of Business Administration. In 2023 she and her crew partner Yik (Chinese: 易希澧) represented Hong Kong in the women's 49erFX at the Hangzhou Asian Games, finishing fifth as one of the territory's entries in that class. At those Games the Hong Kong sailing team took one silver and one bronze, its best-ever Asian Games result, and the fifth place of Choi and Yik was one of several fifth-place finishes for the squad. She has trained extensively in the sport over many years and has taken part in numerous local and international regattas, including Olympic qualification events. In 2025 she competed for the first time in the Around the Island Race, teaming up with family in the PHS big-boat division, and in interviews said she was considering a move into coaching and might not compete as an athlete at the 2026 Asian Games; she said she already holds both windsurfing and sailing coaching qualifications.