Star athlete and part-time model Yeung Man-wai hoping to make Tokyo Olympics after smashing Hong Kong high jump record
Popular Instagram star knocks five centimetres off her own local mark, but knows she still has a lot of hard work to do to make it to Japan in 2020
Hong Kong high-jumper Cecilia Yeung Man-wai is hoping to make the Tokyo Olympics after smashing her own local record at the Asian Athletics Grand Prix.
Yeung jumped 1.88m in Taiwan to win gold, a massive step up from her previous mark of 1.83.
The qualifying standard for Rio 2016 was 1.93, so the 23-year-old still has a lot of improvement to go if she is to make it to Japan in 2020.
But after taking up training full-time and focusing more on her diet, Yeung is hopeful she can continue to get better and better.
“I was hoping to get 1.86, I couldn’t expect that good a result,” she told local media on her return to Hong Kong from Taipei. She will return there in a Hong Kong vest for the World University Games in August.
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