Hong Kong swimmers set record with gold medal relay performance at Asian Indoor Games
Women’s relay team holds off China and Thailand in 4x50 medley
Hong Kong’s swimmers set a new Asian Indoor and Martial Arts Games record to take gold in the women’s 4x50 medley relay to cap a successful day in the pool in Turkmenistan.
Stephanie Au Hoi-shun, Yvette Kong Man-yi, Sze Hang-yu and Chan Kin-lok combined to record a time of 1 minute 48.79 seconds to see off the challenge of China and Thailand, who finished in joint-second 2.85 seconds adrift.
The record time for the Hong Kong quartet surpassed the previous mark, achieved by South Korea in Incheon in 2013, by 1.38 seconds.
“It’s surprising because we broke the Games record as well” said Sze, who swam the butterfly leg in 26.53 seconds.
“We aimed for this gold medal and we are very happy to achieve it. We’re hoping for more in the coming days. We’re surprised that we broke the record, but as it was a medal race, we wanted to go for it.