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Beverly Wright

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL GAMES! Monday 17th November On the last day of the swimming events: Siobhan Haughey captures 2 x Bronze medals for Hong Kong in her ‘fun’ events! During the last final session of the 8 days long swim competition Siobhan Haughey secured 2 bronze medals within 5 minutes of each other!! Her 50 m Breaststroke time was 30.71 and shortly after she swam the 50 m Freestyle in a times of 24.84! In the SCMP report of today, Siobhan stressed the importance of all the swimmers...

Beverly Wright

LATEST NEWS FROM THE NATIONAL GAMES! Saturday 15th November: Another exceptional day for the swimmers at the Shenzhen Universiade Aquatic Natatorium. Siobhan Haughey added another Gold in the 100 m Freestyle to the Hong Kong Sports Federations overall medal haul. Her 100 m Freestyle time of 52.89 was way too quick for all the other swimmers to keep up. Ian Ho advanced to finals in his main event the 50 m freestyle by steadily making it from heats to semifinals in 22.62 and qualifying for tomorrow’s final as second fastest...

Beverly Wright

Thank you to Coach Jericho who has compiled this report following the ISSF (Interschool) Division 2 Champs which took place at Victoria Park yesterday (Friday Nov 14th) Congratulations to all the incredible swimmers who competed in the ISSFHK D2 Championship! Below are the results of HWI-SCAA swimmers who secured a top 3 place in their individual events—what an outstanding achievement! Maxim Harward 14-15yrs old (Performance Mike) 50 Breaststroke 31.86 �� 50 Butterfly 28.73 �� Jake Deng 14-15yrs old (Performance Mike) 100 Freestyle 1:00.69 �� Emily Dormond 12-13yrs old (Performance Mike)...

Beverly Wright

HKG Champion Siobhan at the National Games Swimming 13th November, Shenzhen Freshly crowned National Games Champion in the 200 m Freestyle, Siobhan Haughey stunned the field with a very fast 100 m split and held on to her lead all the way into the finish. Time = 1:54.85. Seen here also at the medal ceremony with her coach Tom Rushton.

Beverly Wright

Siobhan Haughey advances into 200 m freestyle finals Wednesday 12th November Siobhan Haughey has had her first two outings in the 200 m freestyle at the National Games in Shenzhen. She swam in the morning heats finishing 3rd in 1:58.98, and followed up in the evening’s semifinal with a time of 1:56.73 to secure a lane in tomorrow evening’s finals as second fastest qualifier. All the best to Siobhan in todays finals!!

Beverly Wright

NATIONAL GAMES SWIMMING NEWS! Great start for SCA/HWI Swimmers at the National Games of China. On Monday 10.11.25 Ian Ho started his National Games campaign with the 50 m Butterfly heat where he clocked a 24.23 to move as 13. fastest into the semifinals. In his semifinal he managed to improve marginally to a 24.20 and placed 15. Adam Chillingworth posted a 1:02.57 to move into the evening’s semifinals in 15. place. In the semifinal he stormed to a long course sub 1:02 outing with a strong 1:01.79 ranking 15....

Beverly Wright

HKG AGE GROUP LONG COURSE CHAMPS 2025 – REPORT 31 October – 2 November KOWLOON PARK SWIMMING POOL To finish off the 2025 Long Course season, the Championships were held this weekend at Kowloon Park, with all local HKG teams chasing the points! HWI-SCAA team consisted of our elite performance swimmers, and three of our world class international swimmers; Siobhan Haughey, Ian Ho Yentou and Adam Chillingworth. A great experience for our young age group swimmers, and with some impressive results. Special congratulations go to Ho Ian Yentou 100m Butterfly...

Beverly Wright

INTERSCHOOL – LATEST NEWS OCT 31ST The Schools Sports Federation Of Hong Kong China, Inter-Primary School Competition (Hong Kong East District ) was held on 31/10 in Victoria Park Swimming Pool WELL DONE to all the HWI swimmers representing their school and achieving good results Special Congratulations to the following Individual Events Medalists Boys A Grade Lee Chun Hei 100m Breaststroke�� - 1’18”81(New Meet Record!) 50m Freestyle 29”39�� Girls A Grade Yip Joelle Yee Kiu 100m Breaststroke 1’29”27�� 中國香港學界體育聯會舉辦的小學學界比賽(港島東區) 於10月31號在維多利亞公園游泳池進行比賽 HWI泳隊有很多泳員代表他們所屬的學校參加,並且取得很好的成績 特別恭喜以下個人項目得獎的泳員 男子甲組 李俊熹 100m蛙泳1’18”81��(破大會紀錄) 50m自由泳29”39�� 女乙甲組 葉爾翹 100m蛙泳 1’29”27��...

Beverly Wright

Sunday 26th October - SCAA pool This Sunday a group of 14 squad swimmers enjoyed the FREESTYLE STROKE CAMP in the afternoon. There are still 2 more stroke camps this year: BACKSTROKE CAMP on November 9th and BREASTROKE CAMP on December 14th. There are a few spaces if anyone would like to still sign up (if becomes full, I will start a waitlist) Note - the Breaststroke Camp will feature HGK National Breastroke swimmer Adam Chillingworth as guest coach! The camp on Sunday was followed by another successful SPRINT MEET,...

Beverly Wright

HKSSF COMPETITION NEWS FROM TODAY IS BELOW There were 2 Inter-school competitions today – 24th October One was the Inter-Primary School Competition (Hong Kong West District ) held in Victoria Park Swimming Pool The other was the Inter-Secondary School Competition (Division 3 Kowloon Side 2) Final Day held in Kowloon Park Thank you, Coach Chui for the results below – Well done to all the HWI-SCAA swimmers who represented their schools: Highlights of Inter-Primary School Competition: 中國香港學界體育聯會舉辦的小學學界比賽(港島西區) 於10月24號在維多利亞公園游泳池進行比賽 HWI泳隊有很多泳員代表他們所屬的學校參加,並且取得很好的成績 特別恭喜以下個人項目得獎的泳員 女子乙組 秦慧萱 50m自由泳33”00�� 50m背泳37”95�� 區兆婷 100m自由泳1’18”78�� Special Congratulations to the...