Ma Kwok Po (), also known as Panda ma, is a former
Hong Kong
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national
windsurfer
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. Ma is now working for
Hong Kong Sports Institute
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(HKSI) as a
windsurfing
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coach who teaches Techno Team of the Hong Kong national squad.
Career
Panda Ma learned windsurfing when he was eleven years old and was later invited to join a windsurfing training team. The
coach
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who taught him found that he had plenty of potential and let him join the windsurfing Hong Kong team when he was 13.
Panda became a sport star and he joined many
advertisement
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and
movie
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, there was also
action figure
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s and
comic book
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written based on him. Panda Became famous and he got plenty of fans all over the world.
Ma participated in the internal
Olympics
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selection race. However, he lost in the race, quit the Hong Kong team and concentrated on studying. In 2010, W.A.H.K decided to let Panda Ma become the coach of B-Team.
In Sep 2012, Panda Ma quit the job in Development Squad and became the coach of Techno Team in Hong Kong National Squad.
Awards
* 2003 Mistral Youth & Junior World Championships—Mistral Junior Boys - Bronze Medal
* 2006 Mistral Youth & Junior World Championships—Mistral Youth Boys - Gold Medal
* 2006 FedEx RS:X Asian Championships—RS:X Men - Bronze Medal
References
Hong Kong windsurfers
Living people
Year of birth missing (living people)
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