崔浩然

English

Nicholas Edward Choi was born on 20 January 1993 and is a Hong Kong men's foil fencer of Hong Kong, Korean and Filipino descent, standing 1.75 metres and fencing right-handed. He began fencing as a child and won a place in the Hong Kong squad in his youth. At nineteen he competed in the men's individual foil at the London Olympics in 2012, finishing 33rd. In 2013 he won bronze in the men's individual foil at the 12th National Games in Liaoning, a result that brought him wider attention. At the Incheon Asian Games in 2014 he and his teammates took team bronze in the men's foil, and at the 2017 National Games in Tianjin he added silver in the individual event. The 2018 season was his breakthrough: he first won bronze at a World Cup Grand Prix stage and rose to a career-high world ranking of 19th, then at the Jakarta Asian Games beat his teammate Cheung Ka-long in the semi-finals of the individual foil before losing the final 11-10 to China's Huang Mengkai to take silver, also winning team silver alongside Cheung Ka-long, Ryan Choi and Yeung Chi-ka. After the Asian Games he announced his retirement, but later returned to the sport to keep chasing Olympic qualification, and at the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023 he won another team bronze for Hong Kong. Together with Cheung Ka-long and Ryan Choi, he belonged to the generation that lifted Hong Kong men's foil from a rare-medal team to a regular presence at Asian Games and World Cup level, and he was among those who saw the squad progress from individual results to the world's front ranks.