Link Real Estate Investment Trust : Nearly 6,000 Riders Take Part in the First-Ever In-Mall Cycling Relay Event in Hong Kong

Beth McCandry

  • Nearly 6,000 Hong Kong citizens took part in the Tour de Link challenge – the first cycling relay in a Hong Kong mall

  • The Hong Kong Cycling Champ winner came from Oi Man Plaza, while Lok Fu District collected the most kilometers

  • A total of 1,000 sugar-reduced moon cakes were made available to the residents of Lok Fu for their extraordinary group work

Link Asset Management Limited (Link), the manager of Link Real Estate Investment Trust (Link REIT, Hong Kong Stock Code: 823), announced today (Thursday) that the ‘Tour de LINK’, a month-long cycling event in shopping malls, ended successfully on August 29th.

The event drew nearly 6,000 Hong Kong residents to take part in the “Five Minute Challenge” of the “Hong Kong Cycling Champ” competition. The total distance covered at the end of the Challenge was 7,324 km, which is equivalent to 1.27 round-trip journeys between Hong Kong and Tokyo.

The winner and first runner-up of the ‘Hong Kong Cycling Champ’ was from Oi Man Plaza and the second runner-up from TKO Spot. Lok Fu district collected the most kilometers of the six participating districts during the competition.

Link presented a folding bike and a medal to each of the six riders who had ridden the furthest in each district, as well as the Hong Kong Cycling Champ winner, first runner-up and second runner-up.

To honor the Lok Fu district for its distance record and with the mid-autumn festival around the corner, Link offered 1,000 sugar-reduced moon cakes through five charitable NGOs in the Lok Fu district on behalf of the district. The five welfare NGOs are the Ho Ping Neighborhood Center for Senior Citizens (sponsored by Sik Sik Yuen), the Kowloon City Baptist Church Neighborhood Elderly Center, the Lok Fu Residents’ Affairs Association, the HKSKH Wong Tai Sin District Elderly Community Center, and Hong Kong YWCA Lung Cheung Integrated Center of Social Service.

George Hongchoy, Link’s Chief Executive Officer, said: ‘We are delighted to see that the citizens of Hong Kong have actively participated in the’ Tour De LINK ‘to improve their personal health and wellbeing. Many of them asked their families and friends to take part in the challenge together. With the ‘Tour de LINK’ kicking off the ongoing Healthy Community program, we hope to encourage Hong Kong citizens to exercise regularly to strengthen their minds and bodies, and hope to connect people with a better future. ‘

‘Tour De LINK’ final results by district

shopping mall

Total distance

Total number of challenges

Lok Fu place

1,720.29 km

1,619

Kai Tin Shopping Center

1,402.18 km

1,061

TKO spot

1,202.12 km

787

Wan Tsui Mall

1,044.20 km

927

Tin Yiu Plaza

1,000.89 km

826

Oi Man Plaza

954.77 km

667

total

7,324.45 km

5,887

Hong Kong Cycling Champ winner, first runner-up and runner-up runner-up

rank

Participating mall

Total distance in

Five minutes

Nickname of Rider

winner

Oi Man Plaza

3.30 km

LITTLEKIM

First runner-up

Oi Man Plaza

3.10 km

Uncle Aimin ROGER

Second second

TKO spot

3.06 km

Tseung Kwan O male god MAX

The “Tour de LINK” took place in six shopping centers on Hong Kong Island, Kowloon and the New Territories and consisted of two rounds from August 4th to 29th. The first round ran from August 4th to 14th at the Kai Tin Mall, Lok Fu Place and Tin Yiu Plaza. The second round ran from August 19 to 29 at the Oi Man Plaza, TKO Spot and Wan Tsui Shopping Center. The competition took place in real time. Individual and district performance rankings were displayed on TV backgrounds in the shopping centers and updated on the dedicated event page of Link’s community e-magazine Channel 823.

Further information on the ‘Tour de LINK’ can be found here.

High resolution images can be downloaded here.

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Link Real Estate Investment Trust (Hong Kong Stock Exchange Code: 823), managed by Link Asset Management Limited, is a leading global REIT with a focus on retail. Link was listed as the first REIT in Hong Kong in 2005 and is wholly owned by public and institutional investors and is part of the Hang Seng Index. Based in Hong Kong, Link manages a diversified portfolio that includes retail facilities, parking lots and offices in Hong Kong, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Shenzhen, London and Sydney. Link is striving to extend its portfolio growth path and take advantage of expansion opportunities in various markets in order to pursue our medium-term goal of Vision 2025. Further information can be found at https://www.linkreit.com/.