趙詠賢

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Rebecca Chiu Wing-yin, nicknamed the "Little Whirlwind", was born on 24 November 1978 and is one of Hong Kong's best-known squash players. She took bronze at the 1997 world junior championships and won silver in the women's singles at the 1998 Bangkok Asian Games. In 2000 she took singles silver and team gold at the Asian Squash Championships and singles silver at the World University Games. Her finest hour came at the 2002 Busan Asian Games, where, seeded second, she beat world number one Nicol David of Malaysia 9-7, 9-5, 9-7 in a 60-minute final to give Hong Kong the women's singles gold. At the 2006 Doha Asian Games she again met David in the final and took silver. She reached the last 16 of the world championships several times. After retiring following the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games, she became a squash coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute and has long worked with the Hong Kong women's national team; the team took women's team bronze at Incheon 2014 and gold at Jakarta 2018, and bronze at the 2018 world women's team championships. She travelled with the Hong Kong delegation as a squash coach at the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games. She received the Medal of Honour for her services to Hong Kong sport.