趙嗣淦

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Chiu Chi Kam, Kenneth, is a Hong Kong baseball pitcher born on 27 July 1991 and standing 1.83 metres tall. He took up baseball at the age of six and was a long-serving member of the Hong Kong, China men's national team. Through relentless training he threw at around 145 km/h, earning a reputation in local media as Hong Kong's fastest pitcher, and became the first Hong Kong player to be signed by a European club, later pitching for several overseas professional teams. He appeared on the Hong Kong Baseball Association's men's rosters during the 2010s, wearing No.64 as a pitcher at the 2018 East Asia Cup. In 2019 he and teammates founded Hong Kong's first indoor baseball training centre, introducing more scientific, systematic training for aspiring professionals. In 2023 he was named to the Hong Kong, China delegation for the baseball event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou, wearing No.71; the team finished sixth in the men's tournament, and he retired after the Games. He then moved to the Qianhai Shenzhen-Hong Kong Youth Innovation and Entrepreneur Hub to set up a baseball training base and promote the sport in the Greater Bay Area.