https://www.scmp.com/rss/329734/feed The Hong Kong Athletics Championships are the city's premier track and field competition and are held annually at Wan Chai Sports Ground. en https://assets.i-scmp.com/static/img/icons/scmp-meta-1200x630.png https://www.scmp.com Paul McNamara Paul McNamara Former record-breaking hurdler Alan Cheung believes the city’s best athletics talent will continue slipping through the cracks until the sport becomes a viable career. Cheung, who claimed double hurdles success at the weekend’s Hong Kong Masters Athletics Championships (HKMAC), broke the city 110 metres hurdles record, aged 21, in 1996, then promptly quit to study in the USA. “I didn’t see much future in being an athlete,” Cheung, who is now 51, said. “If I had continued I might have reached a... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3333908/hong-kong-must-act-stop-athletics-talent-drain-says-former-record-holder?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3333908/hong-kong-must-act-stop-athletics-talent-drain-says-former-record-holder?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 24 Nov 2025 09:30:10 +0000 Ada Li Ada Li Rico Cheung Siu-hang has his sights set on Hong Kong’s 110m hurdles record when he makes his National Games debut in Guangzhou next month. The 23-year-old’s personal best of 13.77 seconds, which he ran at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships last year, is just 0.03 seconds slower than the existing mark, which was set by Chan Chung-wang in 2018. And as well as targeting the record, the relatively inexperienced Cheug is hoping to gain experience racing against the top-tier competitors he will... https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3330639/hong-kong-hurdler-rico-cheung-make-national-games-debut-city-record-his-sights?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3330639/hong-kong-hurdler-rico-cheung-make-national-games-debut-city-record-his-sights?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 28 Oct 2025 11:00:14 +0000 Paul McNamara Paul McNamara No stranger to raising the bar, Chloe Pak Hoi-man has targeted another record-breaking relay performance at the National Games in November. The talented teenager was part of the women’s 4x100 metres relay team that recorded a city-best 44.88 seconds at May’s Asian Athletics Championships, where Hong Kong finished seventh. That race was won by a formidable mainland China team, underlining the scale of the competition Pak and her colleagues will encounter against provincial quartets stacked with... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3328682/hong-kong-teenage-sprinting-hope-chloe-pak-targeting-national-games-relay-record?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3328682/hong-kong-teenage-sprinting-hope-chloe-pak-targeting-national-games-relay-record?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Oct 2025 01:00:14 +0000 Lars Hamer Lars Hamer Asian Games bronze medallist Vera Lui Lai-yiu will fulfil her childhood dream this weekend when she becomes the first Hong Kong hurdler to compete at the World Athletics Championships in 14 years. Hong Kong was handed a wild card to compete at the event in Tokyo, and Lui was only told two weeks ago that she would be her city’s sole representative. The championships open at the National Stadium on Saturday and end on September 21. The 30-year-old will race in the 100m hurdles on Sunday. “To be in... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3325293/world-athletics-championships-hong-kongs-vera-lui-fulfil-dream-after-surprise-call?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3325293/world-athletics-championships-hong-kongs-vera-lui-fulfil-dream-after-surprise-call?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 12 Sep 2025 09:30:07 +0000 Sam Agars Sam Agars The dust is settling on a big opening week of the 2025-26 Hong Kong racing season and it seemed like as good a time as any to run through a few things to look out for this term. The return of the Warrior It’s now been over five months since Romantic Warrior raced and the clock is ticking if trainer Danny Shum Chap-shing wants to get the world’s highest-earning racehorse ready for a tilt at a fourth straight Group One Hong Kong Cup (2,000m) victory in December. Last seen running a brave second in... https://www.scmp.com/sport/racing/article/3325176/five-things-watch-during-2025-26-hong-kong-racing-season?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/racing/article/3325176/five-things-watch-during-2025-26-hong-kong-racing-season?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 11 Sep 2025 08:07:37 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Teenage long jumper Tiffany Jia Wai-yin is hoping to make this year’s National Games a family affair, by joining her father in the Hong Kong squad for China’s biggest multi-sport event. And the 18-year-old is well on her way to fulfilling her side of the bargain, after breaking the city’s under-20 record twice in a day. Her father, Jia Dong-jin, is the goalkeeping coach for the men’s handball team, and the only thing that might keep them apart is the fact that while his events in November will... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3318122/meet-hong-kongs-father-daughter-duo-out-make-national-games-family-affair?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3318122/meet-hong-kongs-father-daughter-duo-out-make-national-games-family-affair?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 15 Jul 2025 00:00:09 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan A year of preparation has paid off for high jumper Priscilla Cheung Ching-lam, who can look forward to representing Hong Kong in two big events over the next few months. With a World University Games debut less than a month away, the two-time Hong Kong champion should also make the cut for the city’s National Games squad after leaping a personal best of 1.81 metres in Singapore in April. Cheung actually graduated from Polytechnic University last October, but a rule allows for students to compete... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3316279/priscilla-cheung-chasing-city-record-and-hong-kong-glory-games-debut-nears?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3316279/priscilla-cheung-chasing-city-record-and-hong-kong-glory-games-debut-nears?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 30 Jun 2025 01:00:17 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan There was nothing but disappointment for sprinter Leung Kwan-yi despite winning the women’s 100m final at the Hong Kong Athletics Series on Saturday. With the meet at Wan Chai Sports Ground the final chance for local athletes to qualify for the city’s National Games squad, Leung had to hold back her tears after she failed to clock a time better than her 12.12 seconds, which put her ahead of five other sprinters on the day. With Hong Kong co-hosting the November Games with Guangdong and Macau,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3316226/hong-kong-sprinter-leung-kwan-yi-holds-back-tears-disappointment-despite-100m-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3316226/hong-kong-sprinter-leung-kwan-yi-holds-back-tears-disappointment-despite-100m-win?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:17 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan He is the fastest teenaged runner in Hong Kong but for Alton Kwok Chun-ting, running on the tartan track was nothing but an escape from things he hated. The city’s under-20 record holder in the 100 metres, Kwok knew, from the moment he started sprinting as a primary 2 pupil, why he liked running – and it was not about “being fast or beating other people”. Far from it. “I always hated school, words and numbers fried my brain, and I always wanted to quit,” said the 17-year-old, who last month... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3310699/how-hong-kongs-speediest-teenager-went-hating-school-getting-fast-lane?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3310699/how-hong-kongs-speediest-teenager-went-hating-school-getting-fast-lane?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 17 May 2025 03:00:14 +0000 Mike Chan Mike Chan Two-time Asian Games medallist Yang Chun-han said he was surprised to be mobbed by the next generation of sprinters after easing to the 200 metres title at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships on Sunday. Competing in the city for the first time, the Taiwanese was working towards this month’s Asian Championships in South Korea, in which he will attempt to regain a crown he won eight years ago, when he was 20. And as he stepped up his preparations at Wan Chai Sports Ground, he praised his young... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3309921/taiwanese-sprinter-yang-chun-han-shocked-reaction-him-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3309921/taiwanese-sprinter-yang-chun-han-shocked-reaction-him-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 May 2025 00:00:25 +0000 Hong Kong’s community of “masters” athletes has been tipped to grow after the city brought home bagfuls of medals from the past two global championships. Colin Whittington, chairman of the Athletics Veterans of Hong Kong, predicted that the number of senior competitors would only continue to rise as the public became more aware of the need to stay fit and healthy as they got older. Whittington also expected to see the city sending a large team to the next World Masters Athletics Championships... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3305681/why-hong-kong-could-see-boom-athletics-veterans-who-want-keep-competing?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3305681/why-hong-kong-could-see-boom-athletics-veterans-who-want-keep-competing?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 08 Apr 2025 11:35:09 +0000 Hong Kong will invite some of the best female runners to attempt to break the 10km world record in a race held on the city airport’s new runway, organisers announced on Tuesday. The race – officially known as the Hong Kong International Airport/Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon: Three-Runway System 10km International Race – will take place on November 17 on the centre runway, which is expected to open at the end of the year. Officials hope more than 12,000 runners will take part, with 50... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3278907/elite-female-runners-be-lured-break-10km-world-record-new-hong-kong-airport-runway?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3278907/elite-female-runners-be-lured-break-10km-world-record-new-hong-kong-airport-runway?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 17 Sep 2024 10:40:51 +0000 Hong Kong sprinter Felix Diu Chun-hei is expected to become the newest member of the city’s Olympic delegation this week, thanks to a universality spot from World Athletics. Diu’s gain would come at the expense of long jumper Tiffany Yue Nga-yan, who has fallen down the world rankings in recent weeks, and is likely to be just below the 32nd spot when Olympic qualification closes on Sunday. The 100-metre specialist would become the third athlete from the city to benefit from the wild card entry,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3268601/paris-olympics-hong-kong-sprinter-felix-diu-make-final-cut-expense-tiffany-yue?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3268601/paris-olympics-hong-kong-sprinter-felix-diu-make-final-cut-expense-tiffany-yue?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Jun 2024 10:00:16 +0000 Hong Kong’s longest-standing athletics record has been broken after Wesley Chan Wai-chung sliced almost 0.3 seconds off the 52-year-old 1,500 metres men’s record in Japan on Saturday. Chan, 26, crossed the finish line in three minutes, 55.31 seconds during a competition at the Tokai University in Tokyo, to become the city’s record holder. View this post on Instagram A post shared by 𝐖𝐞𝐬𝐥𝐞𝐲🕊️ (@wesleychan__) The previous record was held by Dave Gibson,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3266014/hong-kongs-50-year-old-1500m-athletics-record-finally-broken-amateur-runner?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3266014/hong-kongs-50-year-old-1500m-athletics-record-finally-broken-amateur-runner?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:19:23 +0000 Hong Kong distance runner Christy Yiu Kit-ching has been left with hefty medical bills after losing her elite athlete funding status for almost two months as a result of an administrative mix-up. The former Olympian was told she could not be reimbursed for her expenses in April, incurred for the compulsory medical screening that allows an athlete to renew their contract at Hong Kong Sports Institute (HKSI) and costs up to HK$13,000. Yiu was no longer contracted after March 31 because of an... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3265966/hong-kong-olympian-christy-yiu-saddled-medical-bills-after-athlete-funding-cut?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3265966/hong-kong-olympian-christy-yiu-saddled-medical-bills-after-athlete-funding-cut?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Jun 2024 12:30:26 +0000 The city’s top female hurdler Vera Lui Lai-yiu believes she is on the right track after coming agonisingly close to breaking a 30-year-old record at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships on Sunday. Lui ran 13.15 seconds in the 100 metre hurdles heats at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, 0.01 seconds off the Hong Kong record set by Chan Sau-ying in the United States in 1994. Still, the 29-year-old took 0.12 seconds off her previous best, set at the last Hong Kong Championships in Wan Chai last April,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3261493/hong-kong-athletics-championships-hurdler-vera-lui-close-breaking-30-year-old-record?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3261493/hong-kong-athletics-championships-hurdler-vera-lui-close-breaking-30-year-old-record?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 05 May 2024 12:45:54 +0000 Tiffany Yue Nga-yan knows exactly what she needs to do to become the first woman to represent Hong Kong at the Olympics in the long jump – and it will mean matching her personal best at least three times over the next several weeks. As the 26-year-old enters the final stretch of a crucial qualifying campaign for the Summer Games in Paris later this year, her focus is entirely on breaking into the top 32 in the world. Fortunately, Yue is not that far removed from the 6.50 metres with which she... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3260375/how-hong-kong-long-jumper-tiffany-yue-will-leap-paris-olympics-match-her-personal-best-3-times?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3260375/how-hong-kong-long-jumper-tiffany-yue-will-leap-paris-olympics-match-her-personal-best-3-times?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 26 Apr 2024 00:00:35 +0000 Mongolia has sent a team of trail runners for Saturday’s Bupa Global Lantau 50 Asian Skyrunning Championship race – the first time it has done so, and with a severe climb in temperature awaiting them. The thermometer this week plunged to a low of -27 degrees Celsius (-17 Fahrenheit) in the Mongolian capital Ulaanbaatar, some 50 degrees Celsius lower than Hong Kong has experienced. “Extreme weather between -10 and -20 for my training” said Gantulga Myagmarjav, who trains in Uvs province in... https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3243402/bupa-global-lantau-50-asian-skyrunning-championship-mongolian-runners-face-50-degrees-drop?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/article/3243402/bupa-global-lantau-50-asian-skyrunning-championship-mongolian-runners-face-50-degrees-drop?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 30 Nov 2023 11:57:16 +0000 Long jumper Ko Ho-long believes his battle to make it to the Asian Games is not over despite winning with a personal best of 8.01 metres at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships on Sunday. Ko posted his record on his fifth jump at Wan Chai Sports Ground, becoming just the second long jumper from the city to break the 8m mark. “There is a so called ‘eight-metre club’ in long jump and I am so happy to have joined them,” Ko – who will turn 25 next month – said. “This is the standard that you can... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218926/hong-kong-athletics-championships-long-jumper-ko-ho-long-joins-8-metre-club-win?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218926/hong-kong-athletics-championships-long-jumper-ko-ho-long-joins-8-metre-club-win?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 30 Apr 2023 11:45:16 +0000 Hong Kong’s top women’s hurdler Vera Lui Lai-yiu is confident she will be able to smash her personal best again at the Asian Games in Hangzhou, after doing so twice at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships at Wan Chai Sports Ground on Saturday. Lui ran 13.29 seconds in the 100-metre hurdles heats, slashing 0.03 seconds off her previous best – set at the Asian Championship in 2019 – before trimming another 0.02 seconds off her mark three hours later. Shing Cho-yan, who also improved her personal... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218870/hong-kong-athletics-championships-hurdler-vera-lui-lai-yiu-smashes-personal-best-twice-one-day?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218870/hong-kong-athletics-championships-hurdler-vera-lui-lai-yiu-smashes-personal-best-twice-one-day?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 29 Apr 2023 12:27:50 +0000 Track and field athletes will be given one last chance to impress the selectors with the help of overseas competitors when the Hong Kong Championships take place at Wan Chai Sports Ground this weekend. Organisers the Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates have invited more than 10 international athletes from Taiwan, Australia, and Macau to push local competitors at the two-day event with the Asian Games entry deadline looming. Most of the city’s top athletes will be competing in the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218292/top-track-and-field-athletes-feature-hong-kong-championships-weekend?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3218292/top-track-and-field-athletes-feature-hong-kong-championships-weekend?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 25 Apr 2023 09:45:08 +0000 Race walker Jessica Ching Siu-nga and long-jump star Chan Ming-tai were named Hong Kong’s best athletes by the city’s track and field bosses at a ceremony on Tuesday night. For Ching, who was the first woman from Hong Kong to qualify for the Olympics in her chosen sport, the win was a timely boost ahead of her bid to reach the Asian Games this summer. Chan, meanwhile, was recognised for his achievements by the Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates for a fourth time, having won three... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3214348/race-walker-jessica-ching-named-best-female-athlete-long-jump-star-chan-ming-tai-seals-mens-title?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3214348/race-walker-jessica-ching-named-best-female-athlete-long-jump-star-chan-ming-tai-seals-mens-title?utm_source=rss_feed Tue, 21 Mar 2023 14:06:09 +0000 High-jumper Cecilia Yeung Man-wai hopes to return to competing in June after a year recovering from a knee ligament injury – and has an eye on making it to September’s Asian Games. Last June, the city record-holder and part-time fashion model was forced to pull out of the Hong Kong Championships when she felt a “popping” in her left knee during her warm-up at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. She was later found to have suffered an anterior cruciate ligament injury, sparking concerns for her... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213591/asian-games-2023-high-jumper-cecilia-yeung-eyes-late-bid-selection-after-acl-injury?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213591/asian-games-2023-high-jumper-cecilia-yeung-eyes-late-bid-selection-after-acl-injury?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 15 Mar 2023 07:46:49 +0000 Schoolboy Lin Ming-fu continued his rise to prominence by winning the men’s long jump at the Hong Kong Athletics Series 2, and said he hoped to threaten the eight-metre mark at the city championships next month. The 18-year-old – who last summer became the first Hongkonger to qualify in a field event for the World Athletics U20 Championships – came within 19cm of that distance on Sunday at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. He finished first with a fifth jump of 7.81 metres, with Ma Ka-ho coming... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213304/hong-kong-athletics-series-schoolboy-long-jumper-beats-adults-closes-8-metres?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213304/hong-kong-athletics-series-schoolboy-long-jumper-beats-adults-closes-8-metres?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 13 Mar 2023 04:00:10 +0000 Middle-distance runner Kamran Khan hopes to soon break the city’s men’s 1,500 metres record after coming close at Saturday’s Hong Kong Athletics Series 2 at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. The 21-year-old finished fourth in a time of three minutes and 57.10 seconds, with Tomonori Yamaguchi winning the race in 3:46.40. Yamaguchi was one of two Japanese runners specially invited to the race, in the hopes they could help push local runners to break the record, which has stood for decades. His... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213193/hong-kong-athletics-series-no-record-kamran-khan-1500m-prodigy-says-its-just-matter-time?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3213193/hong-kong-athletics-series-no-record-kamran-khan-1500m-prodigy-says-its-just-matter-time?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 11 Mar 2023 09:25:52 +0000 Top Hong Kong high-jumper Phoebe Chung Wai-yan will be aiming higher at the city’s Athletics Series 1 on Sunday in Wan Chai, after narrowly missing out on a medal at the Asian Indoor Championships. The Hongkonger was just one place off the podium in Astana, Kazakhstan two weeks ago. She cleared 1.65 metres, 1.70 metres, 1.75 metres, and 1.80 metres with only one jump each, and was in second place before failing to reach 1.84 metres and missing out on a medal. “It was really motivating for me to... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3211221/top-hong-kong-high-jumper-phoebe-chung-aims-wan-chai-podium-after-narrow-miss-asian-indoor?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3211221/top-hong-kong-high-jumper-phoebe-chung-aims-wan-chai-podium-after-narrow-miss-asian-indoor?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Feb 2023 06:45:08 +0000 Hong Kong high jump No 1 Phoebe Chung Wai-yan continued her winning streak at the city’s preseason trials on Sunday at Wan Chai Sports Ground. The victory will give her a timely confidence booster in her bid to finish in the top three at her first Asian Indoor Championships next month. The 24-year-old Chung, who has a personal best of 1.80 metres, easily cleared her first three jumps at 1.68m, 1.71m, and 1.75m. She then cleared 1.77m on her third try, before falling short at 1.81m. Toby Lai... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3206896/hong-kong-high-jump-prodigy-phoebe-chung-wai-yan-continues-winning-streak-wan-chai?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3206896/hong-kong-high-jump-prodigy-phoebe-chung-wai-yan-continues-winning-streak-wan-chai?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 15 Jan 2023 11:16:17 +0000 High-jumper Phoebe Chung Wai-yan hopes to take a big leap forward in her career over the next 12 months, after representing Hong Kong for the first time in almost six years. The 24-year-old will be in action this weekend at Wan Chai Sports Ground for the city’s pre-season trials, and enters Sunday’s competition on the back of a win in Bangkok last month. Chung claimed gold medal with a jump of 1.78 metres at the Thailand Open, her first international competition after last representing Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3206438/form-hong-kong-athlete-chung-looks-breakthrough-year-2023-pre-season-trials-loom?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3206438/form-hong-kong-athlete-chung-looks-breakthrough-year-2023-pre-season-trials-loom?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 11 Jan 2023 10:45:25 +0000 Hong Kong athlete Vera Lui Lai-yiu has set her sights on breaking a city record that has stood for almost 30 years, as she targets even greater glory in 2023. And Lui has been tipped to better the 13.14 mark set down by Chan Sau-ying in the women’s 100-metre hurdles at a meet in the United States in 1994. The hurdler hopes she can hit her target as she works towards success in the Asian Indoor Athletics Championships, the Asian Games and qualifying for the 2024 Olympic Games in Paris. Lui, who... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3204959/hong-kong-athletes-new-year-resolution-break-record-has-stood-nearly-30-years?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3204959/hong-kong-athletes-new-year-resolution-break-record-has-stood-nearly-30-years?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:45:13 +0000 Hong Kong jumpers have continued to excel at the Thailand Open Track & Field Championships, with Shannon Chan equalling her city record to win the triple jump. The meet had begun with Hong Kong athletes taking gold in the men’s and women’s long jump and the women’s high jump, and there was more of the same on Wednesday as Chan leapt 12.87 metres on her fifth jump to claim her first overseas senior title. Chan, who had abandoned the long jump the previous day to focus on her favourite event, made... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3201672/thailand-open-track-field-championships-triple-jump-gold-shannon-chan-keeps-hong-kong-flag-flying?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3201672/thailand-open-track-field-championships-triple-jump-gold-shannon-chan-keeps-hong-kong-flag-flying?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 01 Dec 2022 08:24:38 +0000 Hong Kong’s athletes have shone at the Thailand Open Track and Field Championships, with Ko Ho-long winning the long jump after a personal best and confidently declaring that a “big jump” is in his reach. Ko, 24, took first place with 7.87 metres – 9cm better than his previous best – when the championships in Bangkok began on Monday, ahead of Janry Ubas of the Philippines with 7.72m and Tien Trong Nguyen of Vietnam with 7.53m. “I’m very happy with the result,” Ko said. “One week before the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3201510/thailand-open-track-and-field-championships-hong-kong-jumpers-lead-medal-rush?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3201510/thailand-open-track-and-field-championships-hong-kong-jumpers-lead-medal-rush?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 30 Nov 2022 04:52:42 +0000 Hong Kong’s athletics chief is seeking talks with the government about a shortage of training facilities, which a long-time coach told the Post had already cost the city plenty of young talent. Last month’s Asian Youth Under-18 Championships produced Hong Kong’s best haul of eight medals, but Kwan Kee, chairman of the Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates (HKAAA), revealed he wanted more to be done for up-and-coming athletes. “We won the historic eight medals [but] not all of these young... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3198192/hong-kong-losing-young-talent-because-lack-facilities-athletics-coach-warns?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3198192/hong-kong-losing-young-talent-because-lack-facilities-athletics-coach-warns?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Nov 2022 00:30:26 +0000 Hong Kong distance runner Wong Wan-chun is ready to end 2022 on a high note by smashing more records, after battling a recurrence of a debilitating illness that has affected him since childhood. Wong enjoyed a remarkable summer, breaking two city records. The 26-year-old ran the San Diego Rock ‘N’ Roll Half-Marathon in June in one hour, four minutes and 57 seconds, and the Gold Coast 10k in 29 minutes and 27 seconds a few weeks later. As he looked to set another new Hong Kong benchmark at the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3198017/record-breaking-runner-wong-wan-chun-back-track-after-battling-recurrence-rare-debilitating-illness?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3198017/record-breaking-runner-wong-wan-chun-back-track-after-battling-recurrence-rare-debilitating-illness?utm_source=rss_feed Wed, 02 Nov 2022 00:00:22 +0000 Organisers of the Hong Kong 10K Championships aim to revive their event for January after it was cancelled in August over last-minute Covid-19 restrictions, with plans for 3,000 runners to compete. The success of the snooker Hong Kong Masters – as well as the loosening of pandemic measures for the Cathay Pacific/HSBC Hong Kong Sevens next week, with fans allowed to eat and drink in the stadium – have convinced officials the Sun Hung Kai Properties 10K can now go ahead without a hitch. They... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3197484/hong-kong-10k-championships-set-january-covid-19-restrictions-ease-organisers-pushing-3000-runners?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3197484/hong-kong-10k-championships-set-january-covid-19-restrictions-ease-organisers-pushing-3000-runners?utm_source=rss_feed Fri, 28 Oct 2022 01:30:11 +0000 High jumper Sharon Wong Yuen-nam stunned the crowd at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground on Sunday after sealing this season’s highest jump of 1.79 meters, proving that “short guys can jump high”. Wong, who stands at 1.64 meters, stole the show at the fourth event of the Hong Kong Athletics Series after she cleared 1.79m on her first attempt, a personal best. “I started high jumping when I was in primary six, but people kept saying that I am short for a high jump, they have been asking me to change my... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3195358/sharon-wong-proves-short-guys-can-jump-after-personal-best-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3195358/sharon-wong-proves-short-guys-can-jump-after-personal-best-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 09 Oct 2022 13:06:54 +0000 Vincent Lam stole the spotlight at the first Hong Kong Half Marathon Challenge on Sunday, claiming the title in a race which the city’s fastest man of that distance failed to finish. Wong Wan-chun, who set a record time of 1 hour, 4 minutes and 57 seconds in San Diego in June, managed just three laps of the course before crashing out. The 26-year-old did not reveal to officials why he had stopped running, and left the Penny’s Bay course without answering questions. Record holder Wong ready for... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3194590/hong-kong-half-marathon-challenge-lam-claims-shock-win-record?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3194590/hong-kong-half-marathon-challenge-lam-claims-shock-win-record?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 02 Oct 2022 12:45:42 +0000 High-jumper Cecilia Yeung Man-wai is trying to save her career by following in the footsteps of fencer Vivian Kong Man-wai in the hope of curing her “popping” knee. Yeung’s season was halted in June when she felt the popping during her warm-up at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground, raising concerns for the city record-holder’s future. “I had the thought that my high-jumping career was finished this time, especially with my Achilles tendon injury from 2019 not... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3192244/acl-injury-high-jumper-shes-confident-her-career-can-be-saved-heres?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3192244/acl-injury-high-jumper-shes-confident-her-career-can-be-saved-heres?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:38:54 +0000 After five long years, Hong Kong long-jumper Chan Ming-tai finally leapt 8 metres again at an international meet in Switzerland on Sunday. The 27-year-old enjoyed a strong start at the Resisprint International in La Chaux-de-Fonds, setting a season’s best of 7.77m on his third jump. Chan then recorded 8.00m on his final attempt, snatching victory by just 1 centimetre over former German champion Maximilian Entholzner. Australia’s Henry Frayne finished third with 7.98m. View... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3184089/hong-kong-long-jumper-chan-ming-tai-finally-hits-8-metre-mark-again?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3184089/hong-kong-long-jumper-chan-ming-tai-finally-hits-8-metre-mark-again?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Jul 2022 12:05:21 +0000 It would be understating it to say that Wong Wan-chun beat his own Hong Kong 10km record in Australia on Sunday. He destroyed it, shaving a staggering one minute and 14 seconds off the previous mark. Wong finished second in the Southern Cross University 10km Run in Gold Coast in 29 minutes and 27 seconds, erasing his previous mark of 30.41 from the record books. Only Isaac Heyne of Australia was in front of him, finishing 24 seconds faster. For comparison, the biggest slice anyone has taken off... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3183977/world-class-10km-record-obliterated-hong-kongs-wong-wan-chun?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3183977/world-class-10km-record-obliterated-hong-kongs-wong-wan-chun?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 04 Jul 2022 00:30:28 +0000 Phoebe Chung Wai-yan took advantage of a last-minute withdrawal by favourite Cecilia Yeung Man-wai to win the high jump at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships on Sunday. Chung took first place at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground with a personal best of 1.77 metres, while Tiffany Tang Yi-ching, who left hotel quarantine only three days earlier, came second with 1.75m. Yeung was forced out of Sunday’s competition after an old knee injury flared up again during the warm-up. Under fierce sun on Sunday,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183139/hong-kong-athletics-championships-intense-agony-injured-cecilia?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183139/hong-kong-athletics-championships-intense-agony-injured-cecilia?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 27 Jun 2022 00:00:16 +0000 Triple-jumper Shannon Chan not only wants results to boost her career but also believes she has a mission to promote her discipline, which is quite uncommon in Hong Kong, especially among women athletes. Chan on Sunday went close to her own city record at the Hong Kong Championships when she leapt 12.73 metres in her final jump at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. It was shy of the 12.87m she had set in Hong Kong Athletics Series 3 a month ago, but she felt it was quite satisfactory in the... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183131/double-mission-triple-jumper-shannon-chan-after-winning-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183131/double-mission-triple-jumper-shannon-chan-after-winning-hong-kong?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jun 2022 10:45:16 +0000 Veteran hurdler Mui Ching-yeung made quite an entrance on Saturday just two days after leaving quarantine, winning the men’s 110 metres in the Hong Kong Athletics Championships at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. The 29-year-old only returned to Hong Kong last Friday after finishing a three-month training stint in Europe, but his enforced seven-day stay did not seem to hurt him too much, as he clocked 14.10 seconds in the heats and 14.28 seconds in the final at the city’s athletics... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183087/hong-kong-athletics-championships-quarantine-cant-slow-mui-veteran?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3183087/hong-kong-athletics-championships-quarantine-cant-slow-mui-veteran?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 26 Jun 2022 00:30:27 +0000 Chole Chan Pui-kei recorded her fastest time in more than 3½ years to blow away the competition and win the women’s 100 metres at the Hong Kong Athletics Championships on Saturday. The Polytechnic University student finished in 12.14 seconds, well ahead of Kong Chun-ki and Leung Wing-hei, who finished second and third in 12.25 and 12.39 respectively. Chan clocked 12.07 seconds in the heats. Athletics returns this weekend with 2022 Trial at TKO Sports Ground While her time was well outside her... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3183086/fit-again-chole-chan-sprints-her-fastest-time-3-1/2-years-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3183086/fit-again-chole-chan-sprints-her-fastest-time-3-1/2-years-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Sat, 25 Jun 2022 23:30:19 +0000 Hong Kong sprinter Ng Ka-fung will miss the Hong Kong Athletics Championships at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground this weekend because of injury, but hurdler Rico Cheung has another chance to add to his growing reputation. Ng’s withdrawal rules him out of July’s World Championships in Oregon, with the deadline for qualification passing on Sunday. The 29-year-old has not fully recovered after injuring his thigh while running 10.58 seconds in the heats of the Hong Kong Series 3 at Wan Chai last... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3182843/ng-ka-fung-misses-last-chance-qualify-world-championships-rico?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3182843/ng-ka-fung-misses-last-chance-qualify-world-championships-rico?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 23 Jun 2022 23:30:18 +0000 Hong Kong’s Ng Ka-fung said he needs more time to take what he learned from Asia’s fastest man Su Bingtian before it shows on the track. A day after winning the 100 metres at the Hong Kong Athletics Series 2 meet in a pedestrian 10.71 seconds, Ng, who has spent the past three months training with Su in Shenzhen, finished 200m in third place on Sunday at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground. Leung San-lok won the race in 21.63 secs, with sprinter Shak Kam-ching second in 21.70, Ng trailed in third in... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3178712/hong-kong-sprinter-ng-ka-fung-says-he-needs-time-training-work?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3178712/hong-kong-sprinter-ng-ka-fung-says-he-needs-time-training-work?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 22 May 2022 11:46:00 +0000 Hong Kong’s 100-metres record holder Ng Ka-fung is hoping to smash another benchmark on Saturday at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground – the one set at the same venue by his training partner and Asia’s fastest man, Su Bingtian. The pair have been working together in Shenzhen since early February, as part of a partnership between the Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates (HKAAA) and the Chinese Athletics Association. Ng returned to Hong Kong last month, primarily to apply for a US visa to train... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3178358/su-bingtian-protege-ng-ka-fung-hopes-smash-his-training-partners?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3178358/su-bingtian-protege-ng-ka-fung-hopes-smash-his-training-partners?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 19 May 2022 09:34:53 +0000 Hong Kong athletics bosses believe the decision to postpone the Hangzhou Asian Games in September could be a blessing in disguise for the likes of high-jumper Priscilla Cheung Ching-laam. Cheung, who turned 21 on Sunday, won her event at the Hong Kong Athletics Series 2022, clearing a height of 1.70 metres, some way short of her personal best of 1.76m. The birthday girl, who also came first in last weekend’s trial event at Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground with a jump of 1.75m, said she had been... https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3176963/asian-games-postponement-could-be-blessing-disguise-some-hong?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/other-sport/article/3176963/asian-games-postponement-could-be-blessing-disguise-some-hong?utm_source=rss_feed Mon, 09 May 2022 00:30:16 +0000 High-jumper Priscilla Cheung Ching-laam battled through heavy rain to win gold with a leap of 1.75 metres on the second day of the Hong Kong Athletics Trial 2022. And the 20-year-old hopes to celebrate her birthday next week by beating her personal best – provided there is better weather. The Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground was drenched in rain on Sunday, as the first local athletics competition in seven months resumed. With high-profile female high-jumpers Cecilia Yeung Man-wai – the Hong Kong... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3176177/hong-kong-athletics-trial-2022-high-jumper-priscilla-cheung-ching?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3176177/hong-kong-athletics-trial-2022-high-jumper-priscilla-cheung-ching?utm_source=rss_feed Sun, 01 May 2022 11:07:38 +0000 Hong Kong athletics officials hope to stage four domestic races in May, with the flagship Hong Kong Championships the following month, should facilities reopen in April as planned. It has been six months since the last Athletic Series 4 was held at the Wan Chai Sports Ground, where sprinter Ng Ka-fung equalled the men’s 100m Hong Kong record with a time of 10.28 seconds. As the fifth wave of the pandemic starts to ease, the 2022 Athletics Trial is eyeing two successive days on April 30 and May... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3171707/hong-kong-athletics-hoping-hold-four-events-may-city-begins-gradual?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3171707/hong-kong-athletics-hoping-hold-four-events-may-city-begins-gradual?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 24 Mar 2022 10:45:08 +0000 Hong Kong athletics officials have welcomed a plan to build the city’s first ever indoor track and field stadium in Ma On Shan, a move they said would help athletes continue to succeed at a regional level. The indoor facility is part of the proposed Whitehead Sports Park, first touted in 2017 under the government’s HK$20 billion five-year plan to improve sports and recreation facilities in Hong Kong. According to a Sha Tin District Council paper submitted by the government in October last year,... https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3168966/hong-kong-athletics-say-proposal-mega-sports-park-ma-shan-major?utm_source=rss_feed https://www.scmp.com/sport/hong-kong/article/3168966/hong-kong-athletics-say-proposal-mega-sports-park-ma-shan-major?utm_source=rss_feed Thu, 03 Mar 2022 00:15:27 +0000