麥國輝

English

Mak Kwok Fai, born on 26 January 1979, is a Hong Kong contract bridge player. When bridge was included as a medal sport at the Jakarta Asian Games in 2018, held at the Jakarta International Expo, he was selected for the Hong Kong men's team and, with Lau Pik Kin, Lai Wai Kit, Ng Chi Cheung, Wan Siu Kau and Zen Wei Peu, won silver in the men's team event, adding bronze in the men's pairs alongside Lai Wai Kit - two medals for him personally at those Games. At the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou in 2023 he again represented Hong Kong in the men's team event, with Chiu Wai Lap, Ho Hoi Tung, Ho Wai Lam, Lai Wai Kit and Sze Shun Sum; Hong Kong beat Japan in the semi-final and then India 229.1 to 152 in the final to claim its first Asian Games gold in bridge - the delegation's eighth gold of the Games. In the final, played over two days and six sessions in which Hong Kong won five, the fifth session was contested by Sze Shun Sum, Chiu Wai Lap, Lai Wai Kit and Mak Kwok Fai, who won it 38-17 to stretch the lead over India, the last three sessions finishing 42-32, 38-17 and 17-12. Mak has long been a mainstay of the Hong Kong men's bridge team.