Amy Chan Lim-chee was one of Hong Kong's leading badminton players of the 1980s. Spotted as a teenager, she won the territory's women's singles title nine years in succession from 1975 to 1983, became Asian youth champion at 17 and took a world mixed doubles title a year later. She won mixed doubles bronze at the badminton exhibition tournament of the 1988 Seoul Olympics, placed third at the World Badminton Grand Prix Finals, and in 1990 claimed mixed doubles gold and team bronze at the Commonwealth Games in New Zealand before retiring. In 1987 she became the first athlete to hold a Hong Kong Sports Institute scholarship. A graduate of Northcote College of Education and Springfield College in the United States, she taught physical education and later joined the Sports Institute as business manager and athletes' affairs manager. She then became the first female principal of the Hong Kong Jockey Club's Apprentice Jockeys' School, where she helped train riders such as Kei Chiong and Matthew Chadwick; in 2025 she spoke about the school's refurbished stables as senior manager of the club's racing talent training centre. She now chairs the Hong Kong Elite Athletes Association and the committee administering the government fund for elite athletes with disabilities. Awarded the BEM in 1991 as the first Hong Kong sportswoman to receive it, she was named a Ten Outstanding Young Person in 1995, received an honorary fellowship from The Education University of Hong Kong in 2019, and was awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star in 2024.
Achievements
- 1983 · Won nine successive Hong Kong women's singles badminton titles from 1975 to 1983
- 1988 · Won bronze in the mixed doubles at the badminton exhibition event of the Seoul Olympics
- 1990 · Won mixed doubles gold and team bronze at the Commonwealth Games
- 2024 · Awarded the Bronze Bauhinia Star by the HKSAR Government