World Triathlon Cup Hong Kong
Date: 9:30am, 24 March 2024
Venue: Central & Wanchai Waterfront
Tickets: Free
Tag: swimming
Hong Kong Harbour Race 2023
Almost 3,000 swimmers competed in the 2023 Victoria Harbour Race with Japan’s Kaiki Furuhata (14’43.9) winning by a 10th of a second from Taiwan’s Cho Cheng Chi. In the women’s race, Japan’s Hanao Kato came home first in 15’46.3.
The 1km course runs from the Golden Bauhinia Square Public Pier in Wan Chai across the harbour to the finish at the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui.
Full results can be found here
Cross Harbour Race 2023
Date: 12 November, 2023
Venue: Victoria Harbour
Tickets: Free
Siobhan Haughey World Champion and World Record Holder!
Magnificent! After a pair of silver medals at the Tokyo Olympics Siobhan Haughey has won her first World Title in the 200m freestyle at the Short Course Worlds.
Not only is Siobhan a World Champion she is also the new World Record holder! Haughey’s time of 1:50.31 beat Sarah Sjostrom old record of 1:50.43 set in 2017.
Watch the race here
Cross-harbour Race Returns
After a two-year hiatus, the Victoria Cross-habour Race returns on 12 December. The Hong Kong China Swimming Association (HKGSA) have limited this year’s race to 1,500 swimmers – who have to be fully vaccinated and provide a negative test result within 48 hours of the event.
This year’s race takes a new route. Starting at the Golden Bauhinia Square Public Pier in Wanchai swimmers will traverse the beautiful Victoria Harbour and emerge at the Avenue of Stars in Tsim Sha Tsui.
HKGSA President Mr Ronnie Wong said: “The Harbour Race is back, overcoming the pandemic. With this year’s new route, swimmers will be able to enjoy the beautiful Victoria Harbour view from a new perspective. We look forward to giving everyone an even more enjoyable experience with our new arrangements.”
The race comprises two groups, Racing and Leisure, and registration is open till 22 November.
Cross-harbour Race 2021
Date: 12 December, 2021
Venue: Victoria Harbour
Tickets: Online registration is open until 22 November at www.hkharbourrace.com
Siobhan Haughey Wins Silver in 200m Freestyle!
Siobhan Bernadette Haughey won Hong Kong’s first Olympic swimming medal by taking silver in the 200m freestyle at the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games – Chapeau!
After making history by becoming the first Hong Kong swimmer to make an Olympic final, Haughey looked set for gold before Australia’s Ariarne Titmus chased her down in the final metres.
“My achievement, coupled with Cheung Ka-long in fencing, can inspire other Hong Kong athletes who are here in Tokyo, and ‘add oil’ to them,” Haughey said after the race.
“I would like to thank my coaches in Hong Kong and the United States, and also my dad and mum, without them I would not be having such an achievement,” added the silver medal winner “Those swimmers back home – continue to train hard and you will be the next.”
This is the first time Hong Kong has won multiple medals at an Olympic games.
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Harbour Race 2017: A Return to the Historical Route
The Harbour Race returned to it’s historical roots this year as 2,940 swimmers competed on the 1000m course from Tsim Sha Tsui to the Golden Bauhinia Square Public Pier in Wanchai.
Poon Ching Leung Sunny and Wong Ching Lam Athena triumphed in the International Category while local swimmers Sin Chin Ting Keith and Lam Pac Tung Nikita were the male and female champions in the Open (A) Aged 17-34 Individual Category, with times of 11:00.0 and 11:45.6 respectively.
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Artistic Swimmers
Some of Hong Kong’s Olympic swimming team have appeared in an artistic photo shoot by Rex Tsui to promote swimming, the Victoria Harbour race on 16 October and to raise awareness that to succeed in anything it takes persistence and determination. They might not have won medals, but there are not many people in Hong Kong who can say they represented their country at the Olympic games. Chapeaux!
Swimmers participating in the photo shoot included Au Hoi-shun Stephanie (歐鎧淳), Kong Man-yi Yvette (江忞懿), Cheng Lily-mei Camille (鄭莉梅), and Sze Hang Yu (施幸余), together they formed HK’s relay team, and Lau Yin-yan Claudia (劉彥恩) and Geoffrey Cheah (謝旻樹) who represented Hong Kong in the women’s backstroke and men’s freestyle, respectively.
Stephanie Au, also known as “Oriental Venus”, who was Hong Kong’s flag bearer at the opening ceremony of the Rio Olympics, commented that “I used to sing in the water when I was young. This is my first time to participate in the Harbour Race; I do not have any target but to enjoy the process. I am a bit afraid to swim in the sea but I believe it will be a great one.”
Harbour Race
Date: 8:30am, 16 October, 2016
Venue: Sam Ka Tsuen pier, Lei Yue Mun to Quarry Bay Park pier
Tickets: Free
More info: www.hkharbourrace.com, www.facebook.com/harbourrace
Tang Wai-lok Wins Gold!!!
Tang Wai-lok wins Hong Kong’s first gold medal at the 2016 Paralympic Games in Rio in the men’s S14 200m freestyle.
Swimming in the same pool where the Olympic Games were held a month ago. Tang took the lead just before the hundred metres mark and was on world record pace for much of the race, just missing out by five hundredths of a second, winning the gold medal in a new Paralympic Games record time of 1:56.32. Thomas Hamer (Great Britain) and Daniel Fox (Australia) took the silver and bronze medals in 1:56.58 and 1:56.69 respectively.
The race itself starts at around 3:30 of the youtube video.
