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Run With Your Heart

“JC Fit City - Run With Your Heart 2024”

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Relay Run

Stage Performance

Sport Carnival

Award Ceremonies

More than thousand primary and secondary school students, parents, and citizens joined elite athletes to sweat for charity, launching an active lifestyle through a relay run.

The “JC Fit City – Run With Your Heart 2024” was held on May 19th, 2024 in the West Kowloon Cultural District, attracting participants from the sports and education sectors, disciplined services, and citizens from various districts. They experienced over 20 sports challenges, including bouldering, obstacle courses, and Fit Square workshops, and enjoyed a vibrant and energetic healthy Sunday in various Hong Kong-themed sports photo spots.

The “Run With Your Heart 2024” attracted around 200 teams and over 1400 participants, who completed a 3-hour relay run, allowing more citizens to understand the benefits of exercise and implement a healthy lifestyle.

Organised by the Elite Athlete Charitable Trust and fully supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust, the ” Run With Your Heart 2024″ gathered the goodwill and strength of elite athletes and runners. Through the relay run, it promoted the health benefits of sports and raised funds for the Elite Athletes Charitable Foundation to give back to society on different levels. This year, “Run With Your Heart 2024” has become one of the signature events of the “JC Fit City” programme, aiming to further encourage citizens to integrate regular exercise into their daily lives and understand the benefits of sports.

Ms. Donna Tang, Executive Manager, Charities (Sports, Culture & Institute of Philanthropy) at The Hong Kong Jockey Club, said in her opening speech “The Jockey Club has always been committed to supporting the popularization of sports in Hong Kong. We are pleased that the ‘JC Fit City – Run With Your Heart 2024’ event can encourage citizens to participate in various forms of exercise. We hope everyone can persist with ‘Your Heart’ and develop a habit of regular exercise for a healthy lifestyle. Like other charitable projects funded by the Jockey Club, our support for this program is made possible by our unique integrated operating model, which generates tax revenue and charitable donations from our horse racing and betting business, while also creating employment opportunities for the community.”

Mr. Victor Hui, Honorary President of the Elite Athlete Charitable Trust, said “The annual ‘Run With Your Heart 2024’ has witnessed the passing on of the torch among Hong Kong’s elite athletes. We are delighted to see the support from athletes and guests from various sectors over the years, which has consolidated the spirit and strength of Hong Kong’s elite athletes to give back to society and spread the love, goodwill, and sporting spirit across Hong Kong.”

The event was attended by various guests, including:
Dr. Christine Choi Yuk Lin, Secretary for Education;
Mr. Victor Hui, Honorary President of the Elite Athlete Charitable Trust;
Ms. Donna Tang, Executive Manager, Charities (Sports, Culture & Institute of Philanthropy), The Hong Kong Jockey Club;
Mr. Siu Chak Yee, Commissioner of Police;
Mr. Vincent Cheng Wing-shun, Legislative Council Member;
Mr. Yeung Yan-kin, Director of Fire Services;
Mr. Wong Tak Sum, Sam, Commissioner for Sports, Culture, Sports and Tourism Bureau;
Mr. Ching Wo Mok, Deputy Director of Immigration (Control, Visa and Documents);
Mr. Leung Kin Yip, Kenneth, Deputy Commissioner of Correctional Services(Rehabilitation and Management);
Mr. Chu Pui Kit, Kenneth, Assistant Commissioner (Boundary and Ports) Customs and Excise Department;
Ms. Choi Man Kwan, Alice, District Officer of Kowloon City;
Ms. Wong Yan Yin, Paul, District Officer of Sham Shui Po;
Mr. Tony Choi Yuk Kwan, Chief Executive of the Hong Kong Sports Institute;
Mr. Mr Wilfred Ng Sau Kei, Honorary Vice-President of the Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association;
Ms. Malina Ngai Man Lin, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association;
Ms. Ms Chan Lim Chee, Amy, Chairperson of the Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association.

The participating elite athletes included Lee Yuen Yin (rowing), Wong Wai Chun (rowing), Yuen Yun Lam (rowing), Cheung Siu Lun (fencing), Yip Pui Yin (badminton), Cheung Hoi Lam (rowing), Lee Ka Man (rowing), Leung Yuet Yee (badminton), Lee Ka Wai Jimmy (karate), Wong Hiu Ying Angel (gymnastics), Wong Wai Lok (rowing), and Lee Chun Ho (karate).

Hong Kong elite athletes include Ms.Yip Pui Yin (Badminton), Ms. Zhang Ling (Tennis), Mr. Law Leong Tim (Triathlon), Mr. Cheung Siu Lun (Fencing), Ms. Ma Man Sum (Karate), Ms. Yuen Ka Ying (Wushu), Ms. Lee Ka Man, Ms. Fung ChiWan, Ms. Lee Yuen Yin, Ms. Ng Wing Hei (Rowing), Mr. Chan Ming Tai, Ms. Erica Fong (Athletics), Ms. Chan Ho Ling, Ms. Au Wing Chi, Ms. Ho Tsz Lok , Ms. Liu Tsz Ling, Ms. Tong Tsz Wing, Mr. Lo Cheuk Hin Chris, Ms. Ho Ka Wing, Ms. Li Sum Yin, Mr. Lai Cheuk Nam, Mr. Lam Yat Ting (Squash), Ms. Cheng Tsz Ting (Rugby) and Ms. Lo Ka Ki (Shooting) and Ms. Chiong Ka Kei (former apprentice jockey).

Former footballer Kwok Ka Ming also came to show his support.

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Hong Kong Red Cross John F. Kennedy Centre Sports Fun Day 2019

Hong Kong Red Cross John F. Kennedy Centre Sports Fun Day 2019

This year, Sports Fun Day has been held for Hong Kong Red Cross John F. Kennedy Centre for 7 times, attended by a total of about 150 students aged 6 to 20. We hope that the students can experience the sports in person, enjoy themselves in sports, and have an all-round development in both body and mind.
A total of 10 volunteers participated in the activity, “The volunteer students were encouraged to display their athletic talents and bring the fun of sports to the Kennedy Centre, so that students can experience the joy of sports.” Seven co-organisers provided 9 sports activities in 18 locations, enabling students to experience the fun of sports in person when participating in the sports:
  • Floorball - Floorball Federation of Hong Kong
  • Roundnet - Hong Kong Roundnet Association
  • Flyball, Dodgebee & Nerf Hunt - Hong Kong Sports Hunter Limited
  • Kin-ball - Hong Kong Kin-ball Association
  • Active Dance - MUUUUSIC
  • Ring Toss - The Church of Christ in China Kei To Secondary School
  • Rowing - Hong Kong China Rowing Association
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Together We Care 2019

Together We Care 2019

Today, November 10, 2019- Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association and the event main sponsor Hong Kong Jockey Club, the co-organiser YWCA, the sponsoring organisation Li Ning, Watsons Distilled Water and Unicycling Association of Hong Kong, and the supporting organisation Hong Kong Sports Institute joined hands today to launch the ” Together We Care 2019″.
Together We Care initiated by elite athletes has walked into its 15th year this year. It has been held successfully in the past and is launched again this year. A number of Hong Kong elite athletes have teamed up with volunteers from the Hong Kong Jockey Club and the Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) to form a volunteer group of more than 1,800 people, who have visited 2,500 single-living and low-income families in 11 districts, including Sai Wan, Sai Wan Ho, Quarry Bay, Kowloon City , Sham Shui Po, Wong Tai Sin, Kwun Tong, Tseung Kwan O, Ho Man Tin, Tsing Yi, Tuen Mun, Sha Tin, Fanling, Sheung Shui, Ta Kwu Ling rural villages, sending them love and warmth.
This year, in the “Together We Care 2019”, the volunteers have also practiced the “Just · Simple” project, mainly by reducing waste through a simple life. Simple life is a way of doing justice, and it can also be interpreted as “very simple”, or practice is not difficult, which encourages action. As for the “Just”, it means “righteousness” and “volunteer”. “Just · Simple” is promoted mainly through voluntary activities, supporting the needs of the poor, helping the poor through personal visits to the vulnerable families, and environmental protection concepts and methods. Vulnerable families include low-income families, newly arrived families, families living in subdivided flats, street sleepers, seniors living alone, and families with children with special learning needs.
The Hong Kong Jockey Club is the largest charitable public welfare organisation in Hong Kong. As the main sponsor of the campaign, in addition to funding, the Jockey Club has mobilised more than 140 volunteers to participate in the campaign. Mr. Raymond Tam Chi-yuen, Executive Director of Corporate Affairs of the Hong Kong Jockey Club, and representatives of elite athletes, paid home visits to those living alone and showed them care.

Ms. Malina Ngai Man-lin JP, Vice-President of the Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association, said: “Hong Kong athletes are now actively preparing for next year’s Tokyo Olympics and are making unremitting efforts to win glory for Hong Kong. Today, they have extended this spirit of pursuing excellence to community and public welfare services. By launching the “Together We Care”, we hope to encourage more citizens to join the volunteer groups to show care for the elderly and those in need. “

  (9/11) Athletes involved in goodies packing include:

Karate – Lau Chi Ming, Lau Mo Sheung, Ma Man Sum

Squash – Cheng NgaChing, Tong Tsz Wing

Triathlon – Lee Chi Ho , Lau Chun Hei, Yip Tak Long

Windsurfing – Sonia Lo

(10/11) Representatives of the sports community participating in the event include:

Tenpin Bowling – Wu Siu Hong

Badminton – Yip Pui Yin

Squash – Chan Ho Ling, Au Wing Chi

Wushu- Juanita Mok

Apprentice jockey – Wong Chun