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Recreation, Sport, Culture and the Arts

women's epee, with Ng On-yee also claiming her third world championship title in the World Ladies Billiards and Snooker World Women's Snooker Championship 2018 held in Malta. Mixed pair Doo Hoi-kem and Wong Chun-ting won Hong Kong's first gold in the 2018 International Table Tennis Federation World Tour Grand Finals held in Incheon, Korea. Grace Lau Mo-sheung won Hong Kong's first bronze in the 24th World Karate Federation Senior World Championships in Madrid. At the 2018 Summer Youth Olympic Games in Buenos Aires, the city scored three victories, including its first athletic track medal in the hurdles, a bronze by Addis Wong Lok-hei.

Recreation and Sports Programmes

In 2018, the LCSD organised some 38,000 recreation and sports programmes for about 2.3 million participants of all ages and abilities at a total cost of $180 million.

District Sports Teams Training Scheme

A total of 9,074 young people took part in 244 district team events about basketball, football, handball and fencing.

Young Athletes Training Scheme

Training was conducted for 29,665 teenagers in 30 sports disciplines.

School Sports Programme

The programme provided 8,541 sporting events for 635,212 students at 992 primary and secondary schools through seven subsidiary programmes: Sport Education, Easy Sport, Outreach Coaching, Joint Schools Sports Training, Sport Captain, the Badges Award Scheme and the Sports Award Scheme.

Community Sports Club Project

The project, organised by the department in collaboration with the NSAs, supports about 430 community sports clubs in organising 2,350 sports training activities for 51,000 participants. Seminars and management development programmes are formulated for some 400 sports volunteers to help them run the clubs.

Sports Subvention Scheme

The department subvents the NSAs and other sporting organisations for sports promotion and development. The subvention covers office and personnel expenses and spending on NSA programmes. In 2018, subventions totalling about $321 million were allocated to 60 NSAs and 24 sport organisations, which organised 10,720 sports programmes for 749,250 participants. Local and international events staged by the subvented NSAs included the International Handball Federation Trophy, Boccia International Sports Federation - Hong Kong Boccia World Open, Asian Cup (Bouldering), 3rd Asian Youth Athletics Championships and Hong Kong Race Week. The subsidies also went towards supporting the NSAs in strengthening squad training and in helping athletes to represent Hong Kong in overseas competitions.

To enhance the NSAs' corporate governance, the department organises seminars that raise awareness among NSA office bearers and management staff of their roles and responsibilities in

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