洪詠甄

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Hung Wing-yan is a Hong Kong women's rower. Born in 1999, she was selected for the Hong Kong rowing squad in 2016 as a teenager and began training full-time at the Hong Kong Sports Institute from 2017, becoming one of the athletes the sport invested most heavily in. She specialises in the single sculls and in lightweight rowing, and is known for her endurance and technique. In 2018 she competed for the first time at the Jakarta Asian Games, finishing eighth in the women's single sculls. In 2019 she won a gold medal in the women's events at the World Rowing Coastal Championships, showing she could compete at the top level internationally. In 2021 she represented Hong Kong, China in the women's single sculls at the Tokyo Olympic Games and became the first member of the Hong Kong delegation to compete at those Games, attracting wide attention. At the 2022 Asian Rowing Championships she combined with Wong Sheung-yee to take silver in the women's lightweight double sculls. At the 2023 Hangzhou Asian Games she finished sixth in the women's single sculls. At the 2024 Asian Rowing Championships she moved into the open category and took bronze in the women's single sculls. In 2025 she won the title in the lightweight events at the Asian championships, and in April 2026 she won again at an Asian rowing cup. Later in the same year she competed in the women's lightweight single sculls at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, winning silver in 7:28.54. Over the years Hung has grown from a junior prospect into a mainstay of the Hong Kong rowing team, with appearances at the Olympics, the Asian Games and a series of Asian championships, making her one of the sport's most representative athletes in Hong Kong in recent years.