陳萃彥

English

Samantha Chan is a Hong Kong dressage rider. Born in Hong Kong in 2002, she began riding aged eight at a newly opened riding school in Happy Valley and rode ponies at Beas River; she has said she has loved horses since childhood and aims to become a professional and represent Hong Kong internationally. She trains mainly in Germany. In 2017 she was fifth in the youth class of the FEI Dressage World Challenge in Hong Kong. In 2019 she took individual senior dressage bronze at the 2nd National Youth Games, was named Hong Kong's dressage horse of the year, and won the qualifier of the 2nd AEF U21 Dressage Championship. In 2022 she was third in the CDI1* Prix St-Georges class at Wellington, Florida, and fourth in the CDI1* Intermediate I Freestyle there in 2023. She made her Asian Games debut in 2023, winning bronze in the dressage team event at the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou with Annie Ho and Jacqueline Siu - Hong Kong's first Asian Games dressage team medal - which she described as the fruit of the whole team's effort. In 2025 she added dressage team bronze at the FEI Asian Championships in Pattaya, Thailand, and represented Hong Kong in dressage at the 15th National Games.