Top row: Hong Kong rowers Chow Kwong-wing and So Sau-wah top the podium with their gold medals won in the men's lightweight double sculls.

Hong Kong won another nine medals today at the 2009 East Asian Games, with its rowers taking a gold, two silver and two bronze medals.

Chow Kwong-wing and So Sau-wah grabbed the gold in the men's lightweight double sculls with a time of six minutes 13.69 seconds, 2.12 seconds ahead of the Mainland pair Sun Jie and Wang Tiexin.

The two silver medals came from Lau Ching-man, Lee Yuen-yin, Tong Siu-man and Wong Jing in the women's lightweight quadruple sculls, and Lee Ka-man in the women's lightweight single sculls.

The rowing team won two bronze medals in the men's lightweight four (Kwan Ki-cheong, Leung Chung-ming, Lo Ting-wai and Tang Chiu Mang) and men's lightweight single sculls (Lok Kwan-hoi).

Hong Kong won another four bronze medals in wushu in the taolu women's changquan (Zheng Tian-hui), taolu men's changquan (Leung Ka-wai), and in athletics in the women's 3,000m steeplechase (Yiu Kit-ching) and decathlon (Ng Chit-wing).

Hong Kong so far has won 11 gold, 18 silver and 32 bronze medals, making it fourth in the medal tally.