Hong Kong triathlon coach spies potential for ‘overnight revolution’ after Games double joy

Andrew Wright has said Hong Kong triathlon would be revolutionised overnight if the effort that went into staging the National Games races was now invested in wider development.

Head coach Wright was satisfied that medals for Oscar Coggins and the city’s mixed relay team have shown the standard in Hong Kong had never been as high. “Previously it was always one athlete carrying the programme,” he said.

Also referencing some promising recent youth and junior international performances, Wright said the sport was “moving forwards, but not as fast as I would like”.

“There are things we could do that would revolutionise this overnight,” he said.

“We’ve put together an amazing event, which was one piece of the puzzle. If we put the same effort into club, coach and school development, we would become very successful very quickly.”

Wright was optimistic that the individual bronze for Coggins on Saturday, coupled with Sunday’s relay silver, would result in more care and attention for triathlon.