Lau Kwok Kin

Lau Kwok Kin

Personal information
Nationality	Hong kong
Born	(1977-01-17) 17 January 1977
Website	www.hkfencingmaster.com
Sport
Country	Hong Kong
Sport	Fencing
Event	foil
Club	HK fencing master
Now coaching	HK team coach for Universaide, World University Games
Achievements and titles
Olympic finals	2004,2008
Highest world ranking	Hong Kong Rank Number 1 for several years
Medal record Men's fencing Representing Hong Kong Asian Games 2006 Doha Foil Team Asian Games 2010 GuangZhou Foil Team 2010 Foil Team

Lau Kwok Kin (Chinese: 劉國堅; Jyutping: lau⁴ gwok³ gin¹; born 17 January 1977) is a fencer from Hong Kong, China who won a bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games and 2010 Asian Games in the men's foil team competition. As the one and only 2-time Olympian from Hong Kong, he was the first one to officially qualified(NB) to competed at the 2004 and 2008 Olympic Games The first Hong Kong Male Athlete to receive bronze medal from National Fencing Championship in China. The first Hong Kong male athlete to enter into TOP 16 in the World Fencing Championship. Lau Kwok Kin has been the ranking #1 athlete in Hong Kong for more than 10 years. He was also the committee member of HK Fencing Association for 10 years.

He was also invited as honorary coach for the HK Fencing community outreach where he volunteer coaching for community service

NB: before 1996, there is no requirement to compete for "Qualification" for participating in Olympic game. Any country can send representative to participate in Olympic game. But after 1996, as there is increasing number of participating countries, so the committee has decided to implement the "qualification" policy where the athlete must compete within the zone to get the qualification.