Editorial | Hong Kong sport a winner thanks to Siobhan Haughey
- Olympic swimmer’s three gold medals at World Cup in Berlin have clearly made the case for greater funding of all kinds of sport and physical activity
Siobhan Haughey dismissed suggestions that two silver medals for swimming at the Tokyo Olympic Games last year made her Hong Kong’s greatest Olympian.
That would have put her above fencer Edgar Cheung Ka-long, who claimed a gold medal in Tokyo, and windsurfer Lee Lai-shan, who struck gold in 1996 in Atlanta. Haughey is right. Two silvers do not match gold at the highest level of competition.
But her legion of fans can dare to dream about the Paris 2024 Olympics following her three gold medal performances at the Fina World Cup event in Berlin.
Her come-from-behind win at the weekend in the 100 metres capped gold medals in the 200m – her strongest event – and the 400m.
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Hong Kong Olympian Siobhan Haughey breaks world swimming record in 200m freestyle
The 100m medal winners were the same three as in the 200m freestyle, with Australian Madison Wilson, an Olympic medallist, finishing second and European champion Marrit Steenbergen of the Netherlands third.