張海琳

English

Cheung Hoi-lam is a Hong Kong women's rower. She studied at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, reading business administration with a major in marketing, balancing her studies with training as an elite athlete. She specialises in the coxless pair and for several years rowed alongside her partner Leung King-wan. In 2023 she represented Hong Kong, China at the Hangzhou Asian Games and, together with Leung, won the silver medal in the women's coxless pair, the defining result of her career. Hong Kong rowing performed strongly at those Games, particularly in the women's events, and the pair's silver medal reflected the squad's growing strength; afterwards she chose to end her career as a competitive athlete and move on to other pursuits. The coxless pair demands that two rowers keep their rhythm and power closely matched, since any slight deviation by either can affect the boat's speed, so understanding and long shared training between partners are crucial; the combination of Cheung and Leung built its Asian success on precisely that basis. Rowing has long been an elite sport supported by the Hong Kong Sports Institute, requiring athletes to manage fitness, technique and time on the water with a heavy training load, and maintaining a high competitive level while also studying for a degree is far from easy. She keeps a low profile, and public material about her is largely limited to Asian Games results, university reports on student athletes and delegation lists; how she first came to the sport and what she has done since retiring have not been documented in detail.