Hong Kong karate queen Grace Lau Mo-sheung ‘thrilled’ after qualifying for postponed World Games 2022

The World No 4 will ‘do whatever I can to fight for the top of the podium’ after organisers confirm her qualification

Lau has won women’s individual kata bronze in the last Olympics, world championships and Premier League

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Hong Kong’s Grace Lau Mo-sheung after winning the Tokyo Olympic Games women’s individual kata bronze medal final event at the Nippon Budokan in Japan. Photo: AFP

Published: 4:30pm, 12 Mar 2022Updated: 7:43pm, 12 Mar 2022

Hong Kong karate exponent Grace Lau Mo-sheung expressed her joy after qualifying for the 2022 World Games in the United States in July.

Lau, who won a bronze medal at the Tokyo Olympics and the 2021 world championships last November, ultimately qualified thanks to her world ranking.

The world No 4 has been training in Miami in recent months as she competes in the new season’s World Karate Federation Karate 1 Premier League.

Hong Kong’s Grace Lau Mo-sheung (right) wins the Tokyo Olympics women’s individual kata bronze medal final after beating Turkey’s Dilara Bozan at the Nippon Budokan. Photo: AFP

She won a bronze medal in the opening competition in Fujairah, UAE, last month.

The 30-year-old will be up against familiar foes and top three-ranked Sandra Sanchez Jaime of Spain, Hikaru Ono or Japan and Sakura Kokimai of the US as she vowed to “do whatever I can do to fight for the top of the podium”.

“Qualified [for] the 2022 World Games. Thrilled to announce to all of you something I’ve been waiting for soooooo many years,” she wrote on Instagram.

“[My] world championship 2018 and 2021 [medals] couldn’t secure my spot through phase one. Fortunately my ranking qualified me.”

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