Hong Kong’s world-class junior hurdler Rico Cheung finds fast track at senior level
- Months after reaching final at World Athletics U20 Championships, Cheung wins third senior 110 metres hurdles race in a row
- He sets personal best in second leg of Hong Kong Athletics Series, while city’s 100 metres record-holder Ng Ka-fung wins his final but laments poor start
Hong Kong’s only world junior championship finalist in history is swiftly making a name for himself at senior level.
Rico Cheung Siu-hang won his third senior 110 metres hurdles race in a row on Saturday – and all three have come on the same track, at Hong Kong’s Tseung Kwan O Sports Ground.
The latest success for Cheung – who last August finished seventh at the World Athletics U20 Championships – came in the second leg of the delayed Hong Kong Athletics Series, in a personal-best time of 14.46 seconds.
He had blown away the field in his maiden senior event at the Hong Kong trial on May 1, and again made senior competition look a breeze when the 2022 series began days later. On this occasion, he was pushed close by 2018 Youth Olympics bronze medallist Addis Wong Lok-hei, who finished second in 14.49.