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Lee Lai-Shan (traditional Chinese: 李麗珊) (born September 5, 1970) is a former world champion and Olympic gold medal-winning professional windsurfer born in Hong Kong.

Name: Lee Lai-Shan

Gender: F

Place of birth: Cheung Chau, Hong Kong

Representing: Hong Kong, China in 2000 and 2004, Hong Kong in 1996 Olympic Games

Height: 1.7m

Weight: 58 kg

Sport: Windsurfing

Personal best: 1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - 1st boardsailing (first Olympic gold for Hong Kong team)

Lee Lai-Shan, popularly known as "San San", was born in Cheung Chau and started windsurfing aged 12. She began to take part in windsurfing competitions at the age of 17 and joined the Hong Kong team at 19. Over the years, Lee won many international competitions, including the first-ever Olympic gold medal for Hong Kong, in the women's mistral boardsailing class, at the 1996 Olympics and the first champion in the Asian Games representing Hong Kong, China.

Lee was a recipient of the “Ten Outstanding Young Persons Award” and the Bronze Bauhinia Star Award in recognition of her outstanding achievements in the international sports scene. She was also awarded an Honorary Doctoral Degree in Social Sciences by The Chinese University of Hong Kong.

Between 1952-1995, Hong Kong had never been able to win any medals at the Olympic Games. Lee Lai-Shan's victory at the 1996 Atlanta Centennial Olympics changed all this and added a glorious chapter to the region's 44-year Olympic history. Notably, the 1996 Summer Olympics was the last international sporting event that Hong Kong participated in as a British colony, making Lee's medal the first and last medal that the Hong Kong team (not Hong Kong, China) won. After the Games she became a student of sports management at Australia's Canberra University in 1996. She was the first Hong Kong athlete to receive an Honorary Doctorate in social sciences from [[The Chinese Universi

She married long time partner Wong Tak-Sum (黃德森) (known in English as Sam Wong), who has also represented Hong Kong internationally in windsurfing, and gave birth to a daughter, Haylie Wong (黃希皚), in August 2005, and to a second daughter in August 2007.

In 2006, she was featured in a Hang Seng Bank advertisement, in which she said the cost of nurturing a baby in Hong Kong will be HK$4 million (US$510,000). It has caused a slight controversy in Hong Kong as most people do not think it will actually cost that much, and most think that Hang Seng Bank exaggerated the figures.

1990 Beijing Asian Games - 2nd

1992 Barcelona Olympic Games - 11th

1993 World Championships - 1st

1994 Hiroshima Asian Games - 2nd

1995 World Championships - 3rd

1996 World Championships - 2nd

1996 Atlanta Olympic Games - 1st

1997 World Championships - 1st

1998 Bangkok Asian Games - 1st

2000 Sydney Olympic Games - 6th Mistral

2001 World Championships - 1st

2001 National Games - 1st Mistral

2002 Pusan Asian Games - 1st

2004 Athens Olympic Games - 4th Mistral

1994 - Named Best Athlete of Asia

1995-1996 & 1999-2000 - Named one of Hong Kong Sports Stars of the Year for four times

1995 - Selected Best Athlete in Hong Kong for 1994

1998 - Voted one of Hong Kong Top Ten Athletes for 1988-1998 by Hong Kong Sports Press Association

1999 - Selected one of China's Top Ten Athletes for 1998

1999 - Awarded Special Prize in the "Best Athletes of the Century" selection jointly organized by the Chinese Olympic Committee, Henry Fok Foundation and China Sports Press Association

Her declaration to the media after winning gold at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics.

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