Kong defeated France’s Breton in the fencing competition, winning the gold medal and will receive thousands of Hong Kong dollars as a prize for being an Olympic medallist. Her career began at the age of 11 when her father enrolled her in the sport.
Vivian Kongthe Olympic fencing champion from Hong Kong 30 years old, won his title last Saturday first Olympic gold in a final sword fight against local favorite Auriane Mallo-Breton, and will receive an award from her country for US$768,000. On Sunday he announced that he was says goodbye to his career professional fencer.
“I hope to start a new career and work towards having my own charity “to help children find joy in sport again,” he said. Kong in a post on her Instagram account.
He also shared on social media that after having competed in his third Olympicsthe fencer decides to take a rest and say goodbye to the race full-time professional fencing class so that he can direct his energy and motivation into teaching.
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Paris 2024 Olympic Games
His beginnings in fencing
Kong began to practice the fencing at age 11after having tried and practiced several sports, such as Athletics and Taekwondofrom which he obtained the black belt. “My mother still wanted me to dance, and in the meantime she made me ice skate. I liked it, but I wasn’t very good at it. Then my father intervened and said: ‘Why don’t you try fencing?’ “Fencing is like the ballet of sports, it’s very elegant and I really enjoyed it,” Kong said.
His Olympic debut He did it in the Rio Games in 2016becoming the Hong Kong’s first female fencer to win a competition at the Games after beating the 2009 world champion, Russia’s Lyubov Shutova.
In the Tokyo 2020 GamesKong did not perform well and finished fifth in the individual epee event and seventh in the team event. She got her revenge by winning the gold in Paris 2024 and say goodbye to the sport by consecrating himself champion.
“I am very grateful to have had the opportunity to dedicate almost 20 years of my life in fencing and thank you for being part of this journey,” she said in the statement, adding emotionally: “I will miss my family very much of fencing, but once a fencer, always a fencer!“.
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