何善揮

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Ho Sin-fai is a former Hong Kong sport climbing (bouldering) athlete, coach and indoor climbing gym entrepreneur, and one of the figures behind the sport's growing popularity in the territory. He took up climbing as a teenager, went on to become a member of the Hong Kong climbing team with more than fourteen years of climbing experience, and qualified as a national-level route setter. He enjoyed success in local and national competition: he won the Hong Kong Sport Climbing Open in 2010, the National Rock Climbing Championships in 2011, and the Kailas climbing competition in 2015. Beyond climbing, he is well known as a competitor in the Bun Scrambling contest of the Cheung Chau Bun Festival, winning the title in 2009 at the age of twenty, which brought him wider public recognition. He later moved from competition to promotion and coaching, founding the indoor climbing gym chain JUST CLIMB. Its first venue has operated for over a decade, followed by branches in several districts and a site at Kai Tak Sports Park housing one of Hong Kong's largest covered climbing walls. He views climbing as a sport that combines physical and mental challenge, training willpower and positive thinking and teaching people to learn from failure. In 2023 he served as team leader of the Hong Kong delegation at the Hangzhou Asian Games sport climbing events, overseeing team preparation and logistics, and he continues to run leagues and training courses for the local climbing community.