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Hong Kong at the 2026 Asian Beach Games

sporting event delegation

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ139761871 ↗
Source-derived summary

Hong Kong competed in the 2026 Asian Beach Games in Sanya, Hainan, China from 22 to 30 April 2026. This marks the return of the Asian Beach Games, ten years since the 2016 edition in Da Nang, Vietnam.

Hong Kong sent 84 athletes competing in eight sports. The flagbearers of Hong Kong for the opening ceremony are open water swimmer Nip Tsz Yin and windsurfer Curtis Ho.

Hong Kong won their first medal of the competition in the aquathlon mixed relay.

Medalists

Silver

Bronze

Competitors

The following is the list of the number of competitors participating at the Games per sport/discipline.

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The public source identifies “Hong Kong at the 2026 Asian Beach Games” as sporting event delegation. This brief keeps that definition visible, then builds a research path around Hong, Kong and Asian.

Editorial reviewMost valuable as an event-and-institution map that identifies actors, dates and record creators for deeper historical inquiry. The current lead gives the account dated anchors—2026, 2016—that can be checked directly. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its value is orientation rather than verdict, with Hong, Kong and Asian providing the first useful test.
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Chronology, provenance and viewpoint should be read together before a broad social or political interpretation is accepted. The source revision retrieved here is dated May 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q139761871. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2026 and 2016.

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This entry incorporates text from “Hong Kong at the 2026 Asian Beach Games” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.