林淑貞

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Lam Shuk Ching (Ada) is a Hong Kong women's recurve archery athlete with the Hong Kong Island club, where she also serves as a training officer. Recurve is the Olympic and Asian Games archery discipline, in which the archer draws the bowstring with the fingers using muscle strength and which places heavy demands on consistency, fitness and mental control; archery in Hong Kong develops talent through district clubs, and the Hong Kong Island club is one of the older ones. In 2018 Lam was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the women's recurve event at the 18th Asian Games in Jakarta, Indonesia, and appeared alongside Wang Cheuk Ying in the women's recurve group on the Hong Kong Archery Association's final nomination list. In the individual women's recurve event she went out in the first knockout round after the ranking round, finishing 17th of 66 competitors, her representative result at a major overseas event. In 2023 she was again selected for the Hong Kong, China delegation, competing in the women's recurve event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. Beyond competing, Lam has returned to her club as a training officer, taking part in archery classes and youth development and helping promote the sport in the community, a path common among Hong Kong archers who come up through a club and then give back to it as coaches.