Siobhan Haughey caps East Asian Games debut with 7th swim medal

Hong Kong's Siobhan Haughey capped a successful debut at the East Asian Games by winning her seventh medal in the swimming pool at Tianjin on Monday.

Haughey, who turns 16 later this month, added a silver and a bronze medal to her tally on the final day of the swimming competition at the Olympic Centre, surpassing Hannah Wilson's two silver and four bronze medals won at the Games in Hong Kong four years ago. Haughey had earlier won a silver and four bronze medals as Hong Kong swimmers racked up 10 medals in all - three silver and seven bronze.

"This is the first time I have represented Hong Kong at a multi-sport event and I never expected such a result," Haughey said. "The results have really surpassed all my expectations."

Haughey, who won the 100-metre freestyle at the world junior championships in Dubai last month, claimed silver in the 50-metre freestyle yesterday and a bronze in the 4x100-metre medley relay. But she missed the podium with a fourth-place finish in the 400-metre individual medley.

"Competing in three events in a night is really tough and although there was a 40-minute break between each event, I was very tired. But it's been a great challenge and now I must learn from this experience."

Her next target will be the Youth Olympics in Nanjing next summer and the 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, South Korea.

In cycling, a minor mistake cost Sarah Lee Wai-sze the gold medal and she was forced to settle for silver in the women's 500-metre time trial. The Asian record holder finished the two-lap sprint in a disappointing 34.540 seconds, more than half a second off her personal best set in Australia this summer.