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Born | British Hong Kong | 7 February 1980|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Died | 2 November 2023 | (aged 43)|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Country | Hong Kong | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sport | Wheelchair fencing | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Event(s) | Sabre, foil | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Updated on 8 September 2010. |
Fung Ying-ki (Chinese: 馮英騏; Jyutping: fung4 jing1 kei4; 7 February 1980 – 2 November 2023) was a Hong Kong Paralympic wheelchair fencer. At the 2000 Summer Paralympics he won three gold medals in the men's individual foil,[1] team foil, and individual sabre events and took bronze in team sabre. Four years later at the Athens Paralympics, he won two golds in individual foil and team sabre and a silver in team foil.[2][3]
Fung lost the use of his legs as a child after contracting a virus which damaged his spinal cord (Actue Transverse Myelitis in 1994 with paraplegia).[4][5] At age 15, he began practicing wheelchair fencing at a national training facility in Hong Kong (Hong Kong Sports Institute). After the 2004 Paralympic Games he relearned to walk with lower limbs sensation deficiency and retired from fencing.[2]
In the months leading up to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Fung coached Japanese wheelchair fencer Toyoaki Hisakawa in preparation for the games.[2][6]
In later years, he started participating in wheelchair marathon. He completed his first full marathon in Osaka, Japan in 2011.[7] Then in 2012, he completed the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon and was the first local wheelchair racer to complete the entire course.[8] In 2013, he won the wheelchair half-marathon for the same event.[9] He hoped that the increasing profile of wheelchair events locally could provide more opportunities and choices to the athletes with disabilities in Hong Kong.[10]
Fung died on 2 November 2023, at the age of 43.[11]
Fung Ying-ki studied at Kiangsu-Chekiang College (Shatin) during his early years and he received a B.A. with honors in Physical Education and Recreation Management from Hong Kong Baptist University (香港浸會大學) and a MEd in Sports Biomechanics from National Taiwan Normal University (國立臺灣師範大學). He was also a graduate of the first cohort of Master in Physiotherapy degree (MPT) in Hong Kong Polytechnic University in 2013. He was a PhD candidate at Department of Orthopaedics and Traumatology, Faculty of Medicine, The Chinese University of Hong Kong (香港中文大學).
In the summer of 2010, Fung Ying Ki received a Postgraduate Travel Award from International Society on Biomechanics in Sports, and he was commission member of Hong Kong Association of Sports Medicine and Sports Science from 2010 to 2012. Meanwhile, he was one of the classification committee member of International Paralympic Committee (IPC) from 2010 to 2014.