Grace Lau Mo-sheung

Personal information
Native name	劉慕裳
Born	(1991-10-19) 19 October 1991 (age 34)
Sport
Country	Hong Kong
Sport	Karate
Rank	1st[1]
Event	Individual kata
Medal record Women's karate Representing  Hong Kong Olympic Games 2020 Tokyo Individual kata World Championships 2025 Cairo Individual kata 2023 Budapest Individual kata 2018 Madrid Individual kata 2021 Dubai Individual kata World Games 2025 Chengdu Individual kata 2022 Birmingham Individual kata Asian Games 2018 Jakarta Individual kata 2022 Hangzhou Individual kata Asian Championships 2023 Malacca Individual kata 2024 Hangzhou Individual kata 2025 Tashkent Individual kata 2015 Yokohama Individual kata 2019 Tashkent Individual kata 2022 Tashkent Individual kata 2018 Amman Individual kata 2021 Almaty Individual kata World Beach Games 2019 Doha Individual kata

Grace Lau Mo-sheung (Chinese: 劉慕裳; born 19 October 1991)^[2] is a Hong Kong karateka. She won bronze in the women's kata event at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan, becoming the first Hong Kong athlete to win an Olympic medal in karate.^[3][4] She is a four-time medallist, including gold, in the women's individual kata event at the World Karate Championships. She is also a medallist in this event at the Asian Games and the World Beach Games. She is an eight-time medalist, including three gold medals, at the Asian Karate Championships.

Career

Lau won the silver medal in the women's kata event at the 2015 Asian Karate Championships held in Yokohama, Japan. In 2018, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kata event at the 2018 Asian Games held in Jakarta, Indonesia.^[2] Later that year, she also won one of the bronze medals in the women's kata event at the 2018 World Karate Championships held in Madrid, Spain.^[5][6]

Lau won a medal at the Asian Karate Championships in 2015, 2018 and 2019. At the 2019 Asian Karate Championships held in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, she won the silver medal in the women's individual kata event.^[7][8]

In 2020, Lau qualified to represent Hong Kong at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, Japan.^[9][10] She defeated Dilara Bozan of Turkey with a score of 26.94 and won the bronze medal in the women's kata event.^[4] She was also the flag bearer for Hong Kong during the closing ceremony.^[11] A few months after the Olympics, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's individual kata event at the 2021 World Karate Championships held in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.^[12] A month later, she won one of the bronze medals in her event at the Asian Karate Championships held in Almaty, Kazakhstan.^[13][14]

Lau won the bronze medal in the women's kata event at the 2022 World Games held in Birmingham, United States.^[15]

In July 2023, Lau won the gold medal in her event at the Asian Karate Championships held in Malacca, Malaysia.^[16][17] In October 2023, she won one of the bronze medals in the women's kata event at the 2022 Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China. In the same month, she won the silver medal in the women's individual kata event at the 2023 World Karate Championships held in Budapest, Hungary.^[18]

Lau won the gold medal in the women's kata event at the 2025 World Games held in Chengdu, China.^[19][20]

In November 2025, Lau won the gold medal in the women's individual kata event at the 2025 World Karate Championships held in Cairo, Egypt.^[21]

Achievements

Filmography

References

External links

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Grace Lau.

• Mo Sheung Grace Lau at the World Karate Federation (alternate link)
• Grace Lau at KarateRec.com
• Grace Lau at Olympics.com
• Grace Lau at Olympedia
• Grace Lau at the World Games
• Grace Lau at InterSportStats