Tokyo 2020: Siobhan Haughey to boost Hong Kong women’s Olympics relay team in last-ditch bid to qualify
- Women’s relay team are trying to make it to the Games before the qualifying deadline closes this month
- Haughey might swim butterfly so that they can improve their qualification time at Victoria Park swimming pool
Hong Kong star Siobhan Haughey will be out to boost the local relay team in a last-ditch bid to qualify for the Olympics, as competition returns to a public swimming pool for the first time since the pandemic began.
Hong Kong is trying to qualify for Tokyo in the women’s 4 x 100 metre medley relay before qualification closes this month and super talented swimmer Haughey will provide a timely boost as she swims in the butterfly leg – not one of her strongest strokes – at Victoria Park.
Haughey has gone from strength to strength during the past few years, becoming Hong Kong’s first world-class swimmer. Last month, she swam the world’s third fastest time of the year for the 200 metre freestyle – her pet event.
Haughey, who has already secured three Olympic berths in the freestyle (50m, 100m and 200m), may switch to butterfly in the relay with Tam Hoi-lam staying at the helm in freestyle. Stephanie Au Hoi-shun and Jamie Yeung Zhen-mei will keep their places in the backstroke and breaststroke respectively.
