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Given Hong Kong’s location it is hardly surprising swimming is a popular pastime in the city, and success on the world stage has followed in recent years. Double Olympic silver medallist and short course world-record holder Siobhan Haughey is the best of Hong Kong’s athletes in the pool.

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Swimming sensation Siobhan Haughey takes the Post through the process that led to her becoming the most accomplished Hong Kong competitor of all time in the pool.

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Ng Chee Soon, who at 60 was the oldest Singaporean to swim across the English Channel in a relay team, explains how he trained for swimming in the cold, the dark and more for the long-distance race.

Now retired from swimming, the record-breaking, multimillionaire former pro swimmer got married in 2015, has 4 sons and is a strong advocate for mental health – particularly among youth

Siobhan Haughey reaches the 100 metres freestyle final at the World Aquatics Championships, a day after becoming Hong Kong’s first ever gold medallist with her 200m win.

Siobhan Haughey is dominant in Doha to claim her first ever gold – and Hong Kong’s – in a global championships or Games held in the Olympic-standard format.

Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey is into the 100m breaststroke final in Doha and the semi-finals of the 200m freestyle, one of her more favoured events, as she starts her latest tilt at glory.

Lian Junjie and Yang Hao win their third straight world title in synchronised 10-metre platform diving, while twins Wang Liuyi and Wang Qianyi claim narrow victory in the duet free routine of artistic swimming.

She continues to broaden her repertoire as she adds the city’s 100m breaststroke record to her collection at Victoria Park, beating a mark that had stood since 2009.

Siobhan Haughey reflects on her journey from ‘random girl’ to star, helped by a breakthrough realisation at the Tokyo Olympics, and gives demonstration in the pool at Swim to Dream event.

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“Five years ago, the water had a petrol-like smell and there was some rubbish in it. I only encountered some seaweed during my swim this year,” one swimmer says.

Siobhan Haughey sweeps 100m and 200m free finals, to win a total of six World Cup golds, while Kaylee McKeown, who owns all three backstroke world records, makes a full sweep of back events for three triple crowns.

Siobhan Haughey lowers personal best time while claiming silver in sprint race won by Sarah Sjostrom at World Cup stop in Budapest. Australia’s Kaylee McKeown becomes first woman to hold every backstroke world record.

After finishing a close second in the 50m breaststroke final, Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey returns to the pool moments later to dominate her preferred 100m freestyle.

Days after breaking the Asian 100m freestyle record in Hangzhou, Siobhan Haughey improves it again in Berlin, beating several of her rivals and inching closer to Sarah Sjostrom’s world best.

Edie Hu swam the English and Catalina channels, and around Manhattan Island to complete one of the hardest challenges in her sport, but it was Hong Kong where she fell in love with the open water.