Lai Chi Wai
Lai Chi Wai (Chinese: 黎志偉) is a rock climber, sport climber, and motivational speaker from Hong Kong. He is a four-time champion of the Asian Rock Climbing Championships and the world's first Chinese winner of the X-Game's extreme sports.[1] In 2011, he got into a serious traffic accident that left him paraplegic.[2] On December 9, 2016, upon the 5th anniversary of the car accident, Lai climbed up Lion Rock in a wheelchair, and became the first Chinese athlete to be nominated for the Laureus World's Best Sporting Moment of the month, which he lost to a viral video which showed a packed sports stadium of 70,000 people in Iowa turning and waving to children in an adjacent hospital.[1] Netizens, touched by Lai's achievement, said he embodied the “spirit of Lion Rock”, which has come to symbolize Hong Kong's can-do spirit in the midst of adversities.[3]
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| Nationality | Hong Kong | ||||||||||||||||
| Born | 1982 | ||||||||||||||||
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| Type of climber | Rock climbing, sport climbing | ||||||||||||||||
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He is married and has a son.