Name Teresa Chung Yan-ting
School Diocesan Girls' School
Grade Form Six
Sport Swimming
Achievements
Teresa, 18, competes as a backstroke and freestyle swimmer for Hong Kong. In 2009, she was fifth in the 200m backstroke final for girls aged 15 to 17 at the sixth Asian Age Group Championships in Tokyo, Japan. In the same year, she won gold in the 4x100m medley relay and two bronze medals in the 50m and 100m backstroke at the 51st Milo/Pram Malaysia Invitation Open. She also came eighth in the 200m backstroke at the East Asian Games in Hong Kong in December.
Teresa is captain of her school swimming team. Last October, she led them to their 24th consecutive overall title at the Inter-school Swimming Championships (Division One, Hong Kong & Kowloon). She won three gold medals in the 4x50m medley relay and 50m and 100m freestyle.
Soundbite
'I started swimming training eight years ago,' she says.
'Looking back, I am quite satisfied with my record. In 2009, my busiest year, I swam in many competitions. I've rarely taken part in overseas events since then because I didn't want to miss classes. I skipped the seventh Asian Age Group Championship in Indonesia last year ... it was too close to the inter-school championships.
