Eleven creative designs have won the equestrian events jumping fence design competition and 91 schools have been awarded for their enthusiastic participation in the contest, Equestrian Events of the Games of the 29th Olympiad Company Ltd. announced here Sunday.

Chinese tea-drinking is the common theme for the winning designs in the professional and junior categories while traditional Chinese operatic and folk art provided inspiration for the winning design in the senior category.

These designs will be used as a source of reference in designing the fences for the jumping discipline in the Olympic Games equestrian event to be held in Hong Kong in August 2008.

The winning design in the professional category features a bamboo steamer containing dim sum, a favorite delicacy in tea- houses all over China for many centuries. The design was created by Polytechnic University student Yeung Chi-hang.

The championship in the senior category went to Zhang Shuqi, a 22-year-old student at the Capital University of Economics and Trade in Beijing. Her winning entry is a modern expression of two traditional Chinese motifs - the "knife and horse actress" in Peking opera, and five "sandy swallow kites" suggestive of the five Olympic rings.

The winning entry in the junior category was from Tuen Mun Catholic School student Leung Hoi-ying. It features a number of Chinese and Hong Kong motifs, such as bauhinia flowers, a teapot- and-teacup set, a pair of chop sticks, and a bowl of noodle to suggest longevity.