袁廷芝

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Yuen Ting-chi (Chinese: 袁廷芝), known by the English nickname Gigi, is a Hong Kong, China women's beach volleyball player. She is a non-full-time athlete who balances work with training, and has represented the territory at Asian-level events with a number of different partners. In 2022 she partnered Lo Wai-yan in the women's section of the Volleyball Association of Hong Kong, China's Asian Games selection competition, finishing second with one win, one loss and three points. In 2023 she was selected for the Hong Kong, China delegation at the Hangzhou Asian Games, partnering Lo as the second pair; the same year the duo competed at the Asian Beach Volleyball Championships in Pingtan, Fujian, and at the AVC Beach Tour Samila Open in Songkhla, Thailand, in April. They met a Japanese pair in the Asian Games group stage in Xiangshan, Ningbo, losing in straight sets. In 2025 she partnered Au-yeung Wai-yan, finishing second in the women's section of Hong Kong's selection competition for the 15th National Games to earn a place in the tournament proper, and taking third place at the Games' beach volleyball test event. In November she competed in the women's beach volleyball at Victoria Park in Hong Kong, where the pair did not advance from the group stage. Public records of her personal background are limited and rest mainly on team and competition entries.