Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics

The following list specifies the number of competitors for Hong Kong in each sport.

Hong Kong received a male universality slot from IAAF to send one athlete to the Olympics, while one female athlete qualified by world ranking.^[3]

Track & road events

Hong Kong entered four badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament based on the BWF World Race to Tokyo Rankings: one entry each in the men's and women's singles and a pair in the mixed doubles.^{[citation needed]}

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Athlete	Event	Group stage				Elimination	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Ng Ka Long	Men's singles	Muñoz (MEX) W (21–9, 21–10)	Cordón (GUA) L (20–22, 13–21)	—N/a	2	Did not advance
Cheung Ngan Yi	Women's singles	Polikarpova (ISR) W (21–15, 15–21, 21–16)	Sindhu (IND) L (9–21, 16–21)	—N/a	2	Did not advance
Tang Chun Man Tse Ying Suet	Mixed doubles	Chan / Goh (MAS) W (21–18, 10–21, 21–16)	Wang Yy / Huang Dp (CHN) L (12–21, 18–21)	Lamsfuß / Herttrich (GER) W (22–20, 20–22, 21–16)	2 Q	—N/a	Ellis / Smith (GBR) W (21–13, 21–18)	Zheng Sw / Huang Yq (CHN) L (16–21, 12–21)	Watanabe / Higashino (JPN) L (17–21, 21–23)	4

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Hong Kong entered one eventing rider into the Olympic equestrian competition for the first time in 12 years and finished in the top two, outside the group selection, of the individual FEI Olympic Rankings for Group G (Southeast Asia and Oceania).^[7]

For the first time since Seoul 1988, Hong Kong fencers entered a full squad in the men's team foil and women's team épée as the highest-ranked nation from Asia outside the world's top four in the FIE Olympic Team Rankings.^[8]

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Athlete	Event	Round of 64	Round of 32	Round of 16	Quarterfinal	Semifinal	Final / BM
		Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Opposition Score	Rank
Cheung Ka Long	Men's foil	Bye	Mertine (FRA) W 15–12	Foconi (ITA) W 15–3	Borodachev (ROC) W 15–14	Choupenitch (CZE) W 15–10	Garozzo (ITA) W 15–11
Cheung Siu Lun		Sanità (GER) L 14–15	Did not advance
Ryan Choi		Bye	Van Haaster (CAN) W 15–10	Shikine (JPN) L 6–15	Did not advance
Cheung Ka Long Cheung Siu Lun Ryan Choi Lawrence Ng Lok Wang	Men's team foil	—N/a		Bye	ROC L 39–45	Classification semifinal  Germany L 39–45	Seventh place final  Egypt W 45–21	7
Kaylin Hsieh	Women's épée	Murtazaeva (ROC) L 7–14	Did not advance
Vivian Kong		Bye	Doig (PER) W 15–11	Knapik-Miazga (POL) W 15–8	Murtazaeva (ROC) L 10–15	Did not advance
Coco Lin		Tikanah (SGP) L 11–15	Did not advance
Vivian Kong Kaylin Hsieh Coco Lin Chu Ka Mong	Women's team épée	—N/a			China L 32–44	Classification semifinal  United States L 31–42	Seventh place final  ROC W 28–27	7

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Hong Kong entered one female golfer into the Olympic tournament. Tiffany Chan qualified directly among the top 60 eligible players for the women's event based on the IGF World Rankings of 29 June 2021.^[9]

Hong Kong entered one karateka into the inaugural Olympic tournament. 2018 world bronze medalist Grace Lau qualified directly for the women's kata category by finishing among the top four karatekas at the end of the combined WKF Olympic Rankings.^[11]

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Athlete	Event	Elimination round		Ranking round		Final / BM
		Score	Rank	Score	Rank	Opposition Result	Rank
Grace Lau	Women's kata	26.15	2 Q	26.40	2 Q	Bozan (TUR) W 26.94–26.52

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Hong Kong qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Games by finishing first in the B-final and securing the fourth of five berths available at the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan.^[12]

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Hong Kong sailors qualified for one boat in each of the following classes through the class-associated World Championships and the continental regattas.^[13]

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race; † – Discarded race not counted in the overall result

Hong Kong swimmers further achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)):^[14][15]

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Athlete	Event	Heat		Semifinal		Final
		Time	Rank	Time	Rank	Time	Rank
Ian Ho	Men's 50 m freestyle	22.45	32	Did not advance
	Men's 100 m freestyle	49.49	34	Did not advance
William Yan Thorley	Men's 10 km open water	—N/a				1:58:33.40	22
Stephanie Au	Women's 100 m backstroke	1:01.07	26	Did not advance
Siobhán Haughey	Women's 50 m freestyle	24.75	15 Q	DNS		Did not advance
	Women's 100 m freestyle	52.70 AS	2 Q	52.40 AS	2 Q	52.27 AS
	Women's 200 m freestyle	1:56.48	8 Q	1:55.16	2 Q	1:53.92 AS
Camille Cheng Stephanie Au Ho Nam Wai Tam Hoi Lam	Women's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay	3:43.52	15	—N/a		Did not advance
Camille Cheng Siobhán Haughey Toto Wong Jamie Yeung	Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay	4:02.86	13	—N/a		Did not advance

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Hong Kong entered six athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games, with an additional two alternate athletes for the team tournaments. The men's and women's teams secured one of nine available places, respectively, at the 2020 World Olympic Qualification Event in Gondomar, Portugal, permitting a maximum of two starters to compete in each of the men's and women's singles tournament.^[16][17] Moreover, an additional berth was awarded to the Hong Kong table tennis players competing in the inaugural mixed doubles by advancing to the semifinal stage of the 2019 ITTF World Tour Grand Finals in Zhengzhou, China.^[18]

Men

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Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Lam Siu Hang	Singles	Bye	Afanador (PUR) W 4–3	Gnanasekaran (IND) W 4–3	Harimoto (JPN) L 1–4	Did not advance
Wong Chun Ting		Bye			Chuang C-y (TPE) L 1–4	Did not advance
Ho Kwan Kit Lam Siu Hang Wong Chun Ting	Team	—N/a				France L 0–3	Did not advance

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Women

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Athlete	Event	Preliminary	Round 1	Round 2	Round 3	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Doo Hoi Kem	Singles	Bye			Shin Y-b (KOR) W 4–2	Eerland (NED) W 4–1	Chen M (CHN) L 2–4	Did not advance
Minnie Soo Wai Yam		Bye		Xiao (ESP) L 2–4	Did not advance
Doo Hoi Kem Lee Ho Ching Minnie Soo Wai Yam	Team	—N/a				Brazil W 3–1	Romania W 3–1	Japan L 0–3	Germany W 3–1

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Mixed

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Athlete	Event	Round of 16	Quarterfinals	Semifinals	Final / BM
		Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Opposition Result	Rank
Wong Chun Ting Doo Hoi Kem	Doubles	Szudi / Pergel (HUN) W 4–0	Lebesson / Yuan (FRA) L 3–4	Did not advance

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Hong Kong entered one triathlete to compete at the Games for the first time since the 2008. British-born Oscar Coggins secured a place in the men's event by topping the list of individual triathletes from Asia and Oceania vying for qualification based on the ITU World Rankings.^[19]