Asian Games: Hong Kong swimmers win bronze in women’s 4x100m freestyle relay

Hong Kong won their first medal of the Asian Games when the women’s 4x100 metres freestyle team earned a strong third place behind Japan and China at the Jakarta Aquatic Centre on Sunday night.

China’s three-time Olympic champion Sun Yang, meanwhile, cruised to victory in the men’s 200 metres freestyle final and the milked the adulation from the Chinese fans in the stands as he launched his bid for five gold medals in Jakarta.

Hong Kong’s Camille Cheng Lily Mei, Stephanie Au Hoi-shun, Tam Hoi-lam and Sze Hang-yu were never going to catch Japan and China in their final but they were by far the best of the rest clocking 3:41.21. Japan took gold in a Games record 3:36.52, just pipping China’s 3:36.78.

Au was delighted with the bronze medal, saying the team had done well despite the absence of top swimmer Siobhan Haughey, who is recovering from injury.

“I can’t believe we won a medal. We did it even though it was tense for everybody. We trained really hard for it,” she said.