Fung Ying Ki

Fung Ying-ki (; 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, 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.

Fung lost the use of his legs as a child after contracting a virus which damaged his spinal cord (acute transverse myelitis in 1994 with paraplegia). 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.

In the months leading up to the 2008 Summer Paralympics in Beijing, Fung coached Japanese wheelchair fencer Toyoaki Hisakawa in preparation for the games.

In later years, he started participating in wheelchair marathon. He completed his first full marathon in Osaka, Japan in 2011. Then in 2012, he completed the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon and was the first local wheelchair racer to complete the entire course. In 2013, he won the wheelchair half-marathon for the same event. He hoped that the increasing profile of wheelchair events locally could provide more opportunities and choices to the athletes with disabilities in Hong Kong.

Fung died on 2 November 2023, at the age of 43. Provided by Wikipedia