黃家皓

English

Wong Ka Ho is a Hong Kong dragon boat athlete born on 29 September 1995. As a child he watched the Dragon Boat Festival races on television every year; around 2015 he visited the Hong Kong China Dragon Boat Association's website, saw that the national squad was recruiting, judged himself fit enough, applied and was selected. In July 2017, at the World Youth Dragon Boat Championships in France, he won silver in the U24 open small dragon boat 200m, beating crews from Canada, Australia and Ukraine, a result he said proved the worth of two years of national-team training and convinced his initially sceptical family. He has spoken of juggling study, training and part-time work, and of persevering because giving up would have placed a heavier burden on his teammates. At the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games he stepped up from the youth to the senior A squad. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, racing the men's 12-crew 200m, 500m and 1000m straight races. In 2025 he was selected for the Hong Kong SAR delegation for the dragon boat event of the 15th National Games.