Hong Kong athletes hope Portugal trip will provide great leap forward for their Asian Games ambitions
- High jumper Cecilia Yeung and long-jump star Tiffany Yue heading to Europe next month to work with Rolf Ohman
- Former assistant head coach with the Chinese national team is join Hong Kong set up on full-time basis
Two Hong Kong record holders, high jumper Cecilia Yeung Man-wai and long-jump star Tiffany Yue Ya-xin, are hoping to take a great leap forward at a training camp in Portugal next month.
The pair will join up with Rolf Ohman, a former assistant head coach of the Chinese national team, who officially joins the Hong Kong Sports Institute as a full-time coach in July.
But Ohman will start coaching four months earlier to help prepare the team for the Asian Games in mainland China in September.
Anthony Giorgi, Hong Kong’s head athletics coach, believes the Australian’s Ohman’s extensive knowledge across all jump events will boost the team’s chances of success in Hangzhou.
“He has worked with elite level athletes across all jump events including 8m male long jumpers, 5.80m male pole vault athletes, and 1.90m high jump women,” Giorgi said.
“Hong Kong athletes will benefit from his enthusiasm and passion to get the best performance out of each individual.”
Born in Sweden and raised in Brisbane, Ohman has a decathlete background and has worked in track and field since the 1980s, helping athletes qualify for the Olympic Games, World Championships, and European Championships. He has been working at the Liaoning Olympic Sports Centre on the mainland since 2016.