The winning designs of the Jumping Fence Design
Competition are on public display on Thursday in Hong Kong.
The exhibition features 75 designs, including the top three in the junior,
senior and professional categories. Those winning designs will be used as a
source of reference in designing the fences for the jumping discipline in the
Olympic Games Equestrian event to be held in Hong Kong in August, 2008.
The winning design in the professional category, by 22-year-old Yeung
Chi-hang, a student in the School of Design, Hong Kong Polytechnic University,
features a bamboo steamer containing dim sum, a favorite delicacy in teahouses
all over China for many centuries.
Top prize in the senior category went to "Flying Horse and Startled Swallow"
by Zhang Shuiqi, a 22-year-old student at the Capital University of Economics
and Trade.
"Hong Kong - the Gourmet's Paradise" from Leung Hoi-ying, a 15-year-old
student in Hong Kong, won the title in junior category.
Jumping is one of the three disciplines in the Olympic Equestrian event. It
requires the rider and the horse to clear a series of 10 to 13 obstacles in the
prescribed order. The other two disciplines are Dressage and
Eventing.
