Au Yeung Wai Sum Explained

Au Yeung Wai-sum
Birth Date:	16 October 1984
Weapon:	sabre
Hand:	right-handed
Country:	Hong Kong
Fieranking:	current ranking

Catherine Au Yeung Wai-sum (; born 16 October 1984) is a sabre fencer from Hong Kong, China.

Au Yeung took up fencing with some of her friends.^[1] She joined the national team in 2004 after being noticed by a national coach at an inter-school competition. She won a team silver medal at the 2005 Asian Championships^[2] and a team bronze medal at the 2006 Asian Games. She won a silver medal in the 2010 Pattaya City World Cup. In the 2011 Summer Universiade she reached the semifinals after defeating Romania's Mihaela Bulică, then lost to another Romanian, Bianca Pascu, and came away with a bronze medal.^[3]

Au Yeung graduated in marketing from Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Notes and References

1. Web site: Olympics on Au Yeung. Gigi Lam. South China Morning Post. 16 July 2007.
2. Web site: HK bring back four medals. Unus Alladin. South China Morning Post. 1 August 2005.
3. Web site: Au Yeung Wai-sum won a Bronze Medal in Women's Sabre in Universiade 2011. Sports Federation and Olympic Committee of Hong Kong, China. 16 August 2011. 6 February 2015. https://web.archive.org/web/20160303233442/http://www.hkolympic.org/articles_detail.php?cid=22&id=711. 3 March 2016. dead.