Tokyo Olympics: Hong Kong swimmers fall short in 4x100m freestyle relay record bid
- Quartet finishes last in heat some four seconds behind next slowest team Brazil
- They had been tipped to beat record set at Asian Games in 2014
Hong Kong’s women’s 4x100m swimmers fell well short of setting the record some had tipped them for when they hit the pool on the opening day of the aquatics.
They finished dead last in their freestyle relay heat at the Tokyo Aquatic Centre in a time of 3 minutes 43.52 seconds, four seconds behind Brazil in seventh and well off the pace they set to qualify to get to Tokyo.
This year’s Olympians had qualified in 3:40.40, the slowest of the eight teams in their heat, but close to the Hong Kong benchmark of 3:39.94 set in 2014 at the Asian Games in Incheon.
There had been hopes they could go for the record on the opening night of what is hoped to be a medal-winning swim meet in Tokyo.
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