Hong Kong teenage sprinting hope Chloe Pak targeting National Games relay record
Chloe Pak is no stranger to breaking records, and she and her 4x100 metres teammates aiming to lower city best they set in May
No stranger to raising the bar, Chloe Pak Hoi-man has targeted another record-breaking relay performance at the National Games in November.
The talented teenager was part of the women’s 4x100 metres relay team that recorded a city-best 44.88 seconds at May’s Asian Athletics Championships, where Hong Kong finished seventh.
That race was won by a formidable mainland China team, underlining the scale of the competition Pak and her colleagues will encounter against provincial quartets stacked with talent.
“It’ll be our second big competition as a team, and after we broke the Hong Kong record in May, we really want to advance it again,” the 19-year-old said.
“We’ve been to a few mainland events this year and seen the strength of the province athletes … the National Games will be even more challenging for us, but we want to reach the final and maybe even finish towards the top.”
Pak announced her talent to a wider audience when she won 100m hurdles gold at the 2022 Asian Under-18 Championships, and doubled down on that six months later, breaking Chan Sau-yin’s 34-year-old under-20 city record at the Asian Junior Athletics Championships in South Korea.