陳文豐

English

Chan Man-fung (Anson Chan) is a member of the Hong Kong freestyle inline skating (roller skating) team. He began roller skating at the age of eight and specialises in speed slalom, in which a skater sprints forward and then weaves through a row of cones on one foot in an S-shape, combining speed with precision. He has represented Hong Kong many times internationally: at the 2013 World Freestyle Skating Championships in Taiwan he took silver in the junior men's speed slalom, while a year earlier he had finished last at the world championships in Lishui on the mainland - a dramatic turnaround he describes as his most memorable competition. He also won the 2015 Paris Freestyle Slalom World Cup and finished second, third and fourth at the world championships across three consecutive years. In 2013 he received a Hong Kong Outstanding Junior Athlete Award from the Sports Federation & Olympic Committee. He has noted that the official world record for speed slalom is about 4.2 seconds, close to his own best time, and that with such a short course every fraction of a second matters. In 2023 he was named on the Hong Kong delegation's roller skating squad list for the Hangzhou Asian Games. With roller sports in Hong Kong short of resources and venues, he has become one of the territory's leading freestyle skaters and a keen promoter of the sport.