黎嘉怡

English

Clarissa Lyra is a Hong Kong equestrian specialising in show jumping, born in Hong Kong in 1996. She began riding at the age of nine at the Jockey Club Tuen Mun Public Riding School and later moved to the Beas River Equestrian Centre. At 15 she left Hong Kong in 2011 to continue her studies in Europe while training at a higher level and competing abroad; she is now based in Belgium. A former member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club junior equestrian team, she was selected for the HKJC equestrian team under the Hong Kong Equestrian Elite Programme in 2016. In 2017 she was one of eight Hong Kong riders at the 13th National Games in Tianjin and the youngest of them, winning individual show-jumping bronze on her debut at the event. She finished ninth in the individual jumping at the 2018 Jakarta Asian Games and rode at the Longines Hong Kong Masters that year. In 2019 she represented Hong Kong at the CSI1* designated Olympic team-jumping qualifier (1.60m) in Valkenswaard, the Netherlands, and won the Upper Bavaria championships (1.45m) in Germany. In 2025 she took team show-jumping bronze at the FEI Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand. She is the only Hong Kong rider listed in the FEI U25 jumping standings and was nominated for Hong Kong's Most Promising Athlete in 2017 and 2018.