So Wa Wai
So Wa Wai (; born 6 October 1981) is a retired athlete from Hong Kong who has competed in the Paralympic Games on five occasions, winning 12 medals. So Wa Wai is called the "Wonder Boy" () by the people in Hong Kong. Early life So was born with jaundice which affected both his hearing and the balance of his limbs, and hence competes in the T36 classification for athletes with cerebral palsy. At the age of 10, his enthusiasm for running was noticed by athletics coach Poon Kin-lui, who then began to formally train So. Paralympic career His first Paralympic appearance came at the 1996 games in Atlanta, where he won a gold medal as part of the men's 4×100 m relay team in the T34-37 classification. Over the course of the next two summer Paralympic Games, 2000 in Sydney and 2004 in Athens, So won four gold and two silver medals in a range of individual events, up to a distance of 400 m, as well as two bronze medals in relay events. In 2008 So was chosen to be part ...
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Su (surname)
Su is the pinyin romanization of Chinese, romanization of the list of common Chinese surnames, common Chinese surname written in simplified characters and traditional characters, traditionally. It was listed 42nd among the Song dynasty, Song-era list of the ''Hundred Family Surnames''. In 2019 it was the 46th most common surname in mainland China. Romanizations The Wade-Giles, Wade form of the name is identical to the pinyin, but it is also sometimes irregularly romanized as Soo (surname), Soo. and are also romanized SO (other)#People, So and Sou (surname), Sou in Cantonese; Soh (surname), Soh and Souw (surname), Souw in Southern Min dialects; Soh (surname), Soh in Teochew dialect, Teochew; and Thu (surname), Thu in Gan Chinese, Gan. This Chinese name is also the source of the Vietnamese surname Tô (surname), Tô (Chữ Nôm: ); the Korean surname , which is romanization of Korean, romanized So (Korean name), So; the Japanese surname , which is also romanization o ...
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