蔡韻瑜

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Choi Wan Yu (蔡韻瑜), born on 5 April 1993, is a Hong Kong women's karateka who competes in kumite and has won medals for Hong Kong in several international events. Kumite is the sparring discipline, demanding speed, distance control and tactical awareness, and the under-61 kg and under-55 kg classes are both lightweight divisions in women's kumite. In 2017 she won silver in the women's under-61 kg category at the Asian Karate Championships, showing her strength in Asia. In 2018 she competed at the Jakarta Asian Games, taking bronze in the women's kumite under-61 kg category and becoming one of the few Hong Kong athletes to win an Asian Games medal in karate. She later moved down to the lighter under-55 kg category, winning gold in the under-55 kg category at the World Karate Federation (WKF) Karate1 Series A in Cairo in 2022; the WKF governs the sport worldwide, and the Karate1 Series A events are among its international competitions. In 2024 she returned to the Asian Karate Championships to take bronze at under-55 kg. In 2023 she was named in the Hong Kong, China delegation for the women's kumite under-55 kg event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou. She attended CNEC Lee I Yao Memorial Secondary School, moving from school sport to the international stage. Born in 1993, she has competed in Asian karate for many years and is a representative figure in Hong Kong women's kumite.