Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games: Stephanie Norton proud to be first Hong Kong woman to qualify in single-handed dinghy class


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Stephanie Norton said she was proud to become the first female single-handed dinghy sailor from Hong Kong to qualify for the Olympics, given most people in the city are not aware that women even sail. In April the 20-year-old finished third in the Laser Radial class at the 2021 Mussanah Open Championships in Oman, securing her place in the Tokyo Games line-up alongside India’s second-placed Nethra Kumanan. She is the first female Hong Kong sailor to qualify on merit for the Olympics since the qualification rules were made stricter after the 1996 Atlanta Games – where windsurfer Lee Lai-shan became...