Hong Kong’s Siobhan Haughey leads ‘who’s who of Asian swimming’ in lockdown video

Video shows swim stars such as Singapore’s Quah Ting Wen undergo an instant makeover from regular clothes to swimming gear

Hong Kong’s Camille Cheng, Indonesia’s Tiffany Sudarma-Prenot and Kania Atmaja, and Jasmine Alkhaldi also join the fun

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Jasmine Alkhaldi, Siobhan Haughey and Camille Cheng at the Hong Kong Swimming Open 2019. The trio are among some of Asia’s best featured in an Instagram video. Photo: Edward Wong

Published: 4:22pm, 29 Apr 2020Updated: 4:22pm, 29 Apr 2020

A combination of no Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games to train for and an inability to access the pool because of the coronavirus does not appear to be getting Hong Kong star swimmer Siobhan Haughey down.

The Olympic hopeful joined forces with some of Asia’s other Olympians for a quarantine video she shared on her Instagram account.

Haughey posted a video that begins with her in regular clothes and then in the blink of an eye she switches into her swimming gear while the Missy Elliot song “Work It” plays in the background.

The video then cuts to the same process for a “who’s who of Asian women’s swimming” posing in the mirror with their phones in hand before their instant pool-ready makeover.

Also taking part are Haughey’s fellow Hong Kong swimmer Camille Cheng; Tiffany Sudarma-Prenot who swam for Indonesia; Singapore’s Quah Ting Wen; Indonesia’s Kania Atmaja; and the Philippines’ Olympian Jasmine Alkhaldi. Several of them also shared the video on their Instagram accounts.