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Kevin Kung

Name Fu Chun-pong
School St Joseph's College
Grade Form Seven
Sport Swimming
Achievements Chun-pong, 18, swims for Hong Kong and was the captain of his school team in the 2009-2010 season. He won two gold medals and broke the 50m and 100m breaststroke inter-school records at the 2009-2010 Inter-school Swimming Championships (Hong Kong Island and Kowloon, Division One) and successfully defended his title in the same events in the 2010-2011 competition. 
He swam for Hong Kong in the Asian Swimming Championships, coming eighth in the 50m breaststroke and ninth in the 200m breaststroke races.
He won gold in the 50m breaststroke and silver in the 100m breaststroke races at the 53rd Malaysia Open Swimming Championships last year. 
 Soundbite 'I was quite unlucky throughout my secondary school swimming career. I had to take the HKCEE in 2009 and this year I have the A-Level exams. These exams came just before the East Asian Games, Asian Games and the China City Games. Every time I go for a time trial after taking exams, I am about one second slower than the qualifying time,' Chun-pong says.
'I have never participated in the All China Secondary Schools Students Games and this year  I won't be able to either as they are limited to students born after September 1992 and my birthday is in July 1992. 
'And last year my study and swimming plan was totally upset by the postponement of the inter-school swimming competition final due to Typhoon Megi.  I was about to break my own record, but since I studied more, and trained less I could not do so in the final. I was not satisfied with my time even though I won the gold medal. But I love swimming and will swim for Hong Kong in whatever events I can. I will keep training and set myself new targets.
'I want to become a nurse and hope to study nursing at Hong Kong Polytechnic University.'  From his coach 'Chun-pong is a real talent and he has contributed to the swimming team for years. His performance is consistently good in inter-school competitions and he is a reliable leader. With his easy-going character, he gets along well with the schoolmates and teammates,' says David Chu, teacher in charge of the school swimming team.
 Ambition 'I am back in training with the Hong Kong team now,' Chun-pong says. 'I need to lose weight as I have added at least four kilograms after the A-Level exams and I won't be able to swim fast. I hope to break records  in university-level competitions when I enter university this year.'



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