Cado Lee
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| Date of birth | 27 December 1991 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Place of birth | British Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 77 kg (170 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| University | University of Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Medal record
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Cado Lee Ka To (Chinese: 李卡度; born 27 December 1991) is a Hong Kong rugby union and rugby sevens player. He plays for USRC Tigers RFC, the Hong Kong national sevens team and the Hong Kong national rugby union team.
2009–2017
Lee started playing rugby when hew attended high school in England, and became involved with the Hong Kong Under-20 team on his return to his country of birth.[1] He was a member of the Hong Kong Sevens team at the 2011 Asian Sevens Series. He won a silver medal at the 2014 Asian Games, losing to Japan in the final.[2] He joined the Hong Kong Sports Institute on a part-time basis in December 2013 when rugby sevens became the first team sport admitted to the institute.[3]
Move to Japan
In August 2017, Lee became the first Chinese player to be recruited by a Top League club, the NEC Green Rockets in Japan.[4] He signed a one-year deal with the Abiko-based club, and made ten appearances during the 2017–18 Top League season.[5] Despite NEC offering him a one-year contract extension, he returned to Hong Kong in early 2018 to prepare for the Hong Kong Sevens which served as qualification of World Rugby Sevens Series, Rugby World Cup Sevens and Asian Games.[6]
Hong Kong 2018
In the 2018 Hong Kong Sevens, Hong Kong was eliminated by Chile in the quarter finals, failing to gain promotion to following year's World Series. In the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens, Hong Kong again lost to Chile again to finish as runners-up in the Bowl Final.[7] In the 2018 Asian Games, he helped Hong Kong to win all their games in both the group and knockout stages, including a 14–0 victory against Japan to become one of the first gold medal winners for Hong Kong in rugby sevens.[8]
References
- ^ Kevin Kaho Tsui (14 March 2013). "Meet the Hong Kong Rugby Sevens Team". Hong Kong Magazine. Archived from the original on 8 October 2014. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
{{cite web}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 18 October 2014 suggested (help) - ^ "Get to know the Hong Kong National Men's & Women's Sevens teams". Hong Kong Sevens. 15 March 2018.
- ^ "Elite sevens players get into special program". The Standard (Hong Kong). 13 December 2013. Archived from the original on 16 November 2018.
{{cite news}}:|archive-date=/|archive-url=timestamp mismatch; 8 September 2014 suggested (help) - ^ "Hong Kong scrum half Cado Lee joins Max Woodward in Japan's Top League". South China Morning Post. 9 August 2017. Archived from the original on 31 October 2017. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "2014–15 Top League Player profile Cado Lee". Top League. Retrieved 16 November 2018.
- ^ "Hong Kong Sevens the focus for Cado Lee after sampling the 'work hard, play hard' delights of the Japan Top League". South China Morning Post. 5 April 2018. Archived from the original on 8 April 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- ^ "HONG KONG FINISH AS BOWL RUNNERS-UP AT RUGBY WORLD CUP SEVENS 2018". Hong Kong Rugby Union. 23 July 2018.
- ^ "Hong Kong strike gold at the Asian Games". Asia Rugby. 1 September 2018. Archived from the original on 2 September 2018. Retrieved 15 November 2018.
- 1991 births
- Living people
- Hong Kong rugby union players
- Hong Kong international rugby sevens players
- Rugby union players at the 2014 Asian Games
- Rugby union players at the 2018 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Hong Kong
- Asian Games silver medalists for Hong Kong
- Asian Games medalists in rugby union
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2018 Asian Games