Vince Matthew Chung (張澤民), along with his team member Sam Wu (吳偉強), won The Amazing Race Asia 3.
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[1] Vince Matthew Chung along with his fellow team member Sam Wu became the 1st ever winners of the The Amazing Race Asia from Hong Kong in November 2008. Despite starting the final week with a 4 hour penalty they were able to fight back from last place to claim a monumental victory in Phuket, Thailand ahead of Geoff & Tisha and Ida & Tania. The fact that Vince & Sam were originally a standby team and had been confirmed as contestants for The Race at the very last minute (they were given only 4 hours to take unpaid leave from their jobs, bid farewell to their families and get to the airport without letting anyone know where they were going) made this a first in the history of the popular television / reality show.
Vince Matthew Chung was born in Toronto, Canada the son of an accountant and a university lecturer and spent his early life there. He attended public school number 207 and his favorite subject was gym. At middle school he represented Ontario internationally in swimming competitions, specialising in breast-stroke and also held several provincial records when he was younger. Later he studied kinesiology at York University and Education at University of Toronto. In 2003 in a move to rediscover his roots, he relocated to Hong Kong, where he started out with a career in education, but after a short time his love for the theatre and acting drove him to follow these pursuits professionally.
Since 2007 Vince has been working as a professional actor [2] host[1] and comedian[1] in Hong Kong. Previously a regular at The TakeOut Comedy Club Hong Kong he became one of the finalists of The Funniest Person in Hong Kong competition in late 2007.[1][3] After he was selected to take part in the Amazing Race Asia in 2008, Vince decided to focus solely on his acting and is currently working on several projects including the soon to be broadcast web series Lumina and the sketch comedy with a travel theme CB Fresh which he jointly developed with co-hosts Simon Yin & Rob Lok and cinematographers Derrick Fong and Chung Tsang.