Hong Kong has won four more gold medals at the 2009 East Asian Games, taking the total so far to six.

In the men's squash singles final, Lau Siu-wai beat teammate Lee Ho-yin by three games to one. Chiu Wing-yin took the other gold by beating teammate Au Wing-chi in the women's squash competition.

Hong Kong's Kwok Chi-ho beat Chinese Taipei's Yang Ching-Shun 11-9 in the men's cue sports 9-ball pool final. The Hong Kong team won a gold medal in women's table tennis, too.

Top players: Hong Kong athletes Chiu Wing-yin, Lau Siu-wai and Kwok Chi-ho win gold medals at the 2009 East Asian Games.

More medals

Hong Kong athletes also won five silver and nine bronze medals in today's events.

The silver medalists were Au Wing-chi and Lee Ho-Yin in women's and men's squash, Yu Sum-yee in men's artistic cycling, a pair in women's artistic cycling and the men's rugby team.

Hong Kong also won a total of nine bronze medals today, by Ip Hin-bon in men's artistic cycling, Hannah Wilson in women's 100m freestyle swimming, Yeung Wai-yee in the women's 47kg taekwondo, another pair in women's artistic cycling, a men's team in doubles' table tennis, the men's rugby team, and three groups in the Latin dance cha-cha-cha, jive, and standard dance five events.

China leads in gold

Secretary for Home Affairs Tsang Tak-sing congratulated Hong Kong athletes for their outstanding results in the games.

"We are really excited by the outstanding performance of Hong Kong athletes in the games, which fully demonstrated sportsmanship and determination," Mr Tsang said.

The Hong Kong delegation has so far won six gold, six silver and 11 bronze medals in the 2009 EAG.

China tops the gold-medal tally with 16 golds, followed by Japan with 10 golds and Korea with seven.

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Opening ceremony kudos

International Olympic Committee Chairman Count Jacques Rogge had nothing but praise for the way Hong Kong had organised the Opening Ceremony of the Hong Kong 2009 East Asian Games.

After witnessing the spectacular opening ceremony at Victory Harbour on Saturday night, Count Rogge said he would rate it as one of the best opening ceremonies he had seen.

"I have seen many opening ceremonies in my long career with the Olympics. And this deserves a gold medal," he said.

"It was an absolutely smashing and brilliant opening, very nice choreography, very original, creative, and probably the nicest backdrop you can ever dream of."