馬琳

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Melinda Ma is a Hong Kong show jumper. Born in Hong Kong in 1996, she began riding at the age of six at Pok Fu Lam Public Riding School and always aspired to become a professional rider and compete at the Olympics. Though she was already fifteen when she started showjumping, she progressed quickly under the coach Joachim Heidenreich. From 2016 to 2018 she was a member of the Hong Kong Jockey Club Junior Equestrian Training Squad. In 2017 she won the HKJC Junior Challenge at the Longines Masters of Hong Kong and took overall honours in Category B of the FEI World Jumping Challenge in Hong Kong. From 2017 she moved to Germany to pursue showjumping full time, going on to record international results including two second places in the CSIAm-A Two Phases (1.40m) at Verden in Germany, and a fifth and an eighth place at Donaueschingen in the 1.35m and 1.40m classes in 2019. In 2023 she was selected for Hong Kong's delegation to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou for showjumping. She is supported by the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Her date of birth, school and fuller competitive record are sparsely documented in public sources.