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Swimming

Swimming
Given Hong Kong’s location it is hardly surprising swimming is a popular pastime in the city, and success on the world stage has followed in recent years. Double Olympic silver medallist and short course world-record holder Siobhan Haughey is the best of Hong Kong’s athletes in the pool.
Victoria Park is Hong Kong’s leading tennis facility. Photo: Dickson Lee
2025 National Games

Hong Kong Olympic chief calls for world-class swimming and tennis facilities

Timothy Fok says city can follow Singapore’s example by creating elite swimming centre, acknowledges staging Olympics would be ‘ultimate prize’.

Asia travel

Where you can go in Asia for an open-water swimming trip

European travel

Fair-weather swimmer? Try open-water swimming somewhere like Croatia

Water sports

Hong Kong wushu shines at World Games, squash’s Ho misses, China win 3 golds

Chinese fin-swimmers set world mark, while free-divers add to gold haul as city’s wushu fighter Cheung Yat-lam gets chance to do the same.

China’s (from left) Shu Chengjing, Xie Wenmin, Hu Yaoyao and Xu Yichuan celebrate after winning the finswimming surface relay 4x50m. Photo: Xinhua
World Aquatics Championships

Chinese prodigy Yu Zidi eyes emulating swimming great Summer McIntosh

Canadian shows while she will be one of the stars of the Los Angeles Olympics in 2028, but 12-year-old Yu shaping up to be major threat.

World Aquatics Championships

Yu Zidi close to medal again as McIntosh, US relay women rule at swimming worlds

Summer McIntosh equals Phelps feat with her fourth gold at World Aquatics Championships, US break world record in women’s 4x100m medley.

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World Aquatics Championships

Pan Zhanle can’t repeat Olympic relay defeat of US, but Yu, 12, has medal chance

Yu swims in 400 metres medley at World Championships, while China’s team fail to reach relay final a year after ending American monopoly.

Pan Zhanle has finished out of the running in several events in Singapore. Photo: Xinhua
World Aquatics Championships

Ledecky wins 800m freestyle, US set relay world record, more gold for China

Chen Yiwen and Chen Jia finish first and second in women’s 3m springboard diving, while Ledecky takes seventh world title in thriller.

World Aquatics Championships

Qin Haiyang bags world 200 metres breaststroke gold in ‘lane 8 miracle’

Breaststroke king hits form in Singapore after also winning 100m gold and 50m bronze, before China’s men’s 4x200m freestyle team win silver.

World Aquatics

China’s women claim relay bronze, handing Yu Zidi first medal in Singapore

12-year-old helps team qualify third fastest for final of women’s 4x200m freestyle relay in Singapore; finishes fourth in 200m butterfly.

China’s women (from left) Liu Yaxin, Yu Yiting, Li Bingjie, and Yang Peiqi celebrate after finishing third place in the final of the women’s 4x200m freestyle relay. Photo: AFP

Hong Kong Cross Harbour Race returns after 2024 cancellation, registration open

Those wishing to take part can sign up now – last year’s edition was cancelled because of Super Typhoon Yinxing.

Swimmers line up at the starting point for the 2022 New World Harbour Race at Golden Bauhinia Square in Wan Chai. Photo: Sam Tsang
World Aquatics

Leon Marchand smashes 200 metres individual medley world record in Singapore

Frenchman obliterates Ryan Lochte‘s old mark at the World Aquatics Championships.

World Aquatics Championships

Pan Zhanle fails to reach 100m freestyle final at World Aquatics Championships

Olympic champion off pace in semi-finals, Qin Haiyang loses 50m breaststroke crown, but 12-year-old Yu Zidi reaches 200m butterfly final.

World Aquatics

World Aquatics Championships: China’s divers win 2 more golds, swimmers win bronze

Men win 10m platform synchronised event while women win 3m springboard, but Tang Qianting fails to defend 100m breaststroke title.

Cheng Zilong (left) and Zhu Zifeng on their way to winning the 10m platform synchronised diving final at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Tuesday. Photo: Xinhua
World Aquatics Championships

Pan Zhanle predicts ‘amazing support’ as Beijing named host of swimming worlds

Olympic champion expects ‘once-in-a-lifetime experience’ when China stages short-course World Aquatics Swimming Championships for third time.

China’s Pan Zhanle, pictured winning 100m freestyle gold at last year’s Paris Olympics, could compete at home in 2026. Photo: Kyodo
World Aquatics Championships

Qin wins China’s first swimming gold of world championships, Yu Zidi fourth

Chinese 12-year-old prodigy Yu misses out on medley bronze by just 0.06 seconds as Summer McIntosh wins second gold in Singapore.

Katie Ledecky

China’s Pan Zhanle ‘not happy’ after shock exit at world swimming championships

Olympic champion Pan crashes out in heats in Singapore, finishing 22nd fastest.

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World Aquatics Championships

Profile | Who is Yu Zidi, the Chinese 12-year-old making waves at World Aquatics Championships?

Swimmer can make history on Monday as the youngest person to win a medal at an international event since 1936.

China’s Yu Zidi competes in the heats of the 200m individual medley at the World Aquatics Championships in Singapore on Sunday. Photo: AFP
World Aquatics Championships

Chinese swimmer Yu, 12, makes debut on world stage, McIntosh wins first gold

Yu qualifies for 200m individual medley final on first day in Singapore as compatriot Li Bingjie pips Katie Ledecky for 400m freestyle silver.

World Aquatics Championships

Chinese record under threat from Canada’s McIntosh at swimming worlds

Singapore-bound teen is first swimmer to set three world records in different events since Michael Phelps did it at 2008 Beijing Olympics.

Hong Kong Sports Institute

Ex-Hong Kong athlete swims 360km around Swedish island in mental health battle

Karl Palmqvist, a Swedish national who once trained with the Hong Kong Sports Institute, completes swim around Gotland in 21 days.

Karl Palmqvist, a Swedish national, trained with the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s triathlon national development squad as a teenager. Photo: Anders Klapp
Hong Kong sports

Injured Haughey out of World Aquatics Championships, still eyeing National Games

Hong Kong Olympian Siobhan Haughey says back injury has forced her withdrawal, says ‘I have to do what’s best for me’.

Swimmer Siobhan Haughey with her Hong Kong Sports Stars Awards trophy. Photo: Elson Li
Singapore

Artistic swimmer Xu claims China’s first gold of World Aquatics Championships

The multiple World Cup winner continued her dominance of the women’s solo technical event at the WAC Arena in Singapore.

World Aquatics Championships

Wellbrock claims third World Aquatics gold, Kajimoto takes new 3km sprint crown

Ichika Kajimoto and Florian Wellbrock win titles in new event that involves athletes swimming 1,500m, 1,000m and 500m in quick succession.

World Aquatics Championships

Xu, Lin twins make strong start to artistic events at World Aquatics Championships

Solo technical favourite Xu Huiyan dominates, Lin Yanhan and Lin Yanjun brush off nerves as artistic swimming gets under way in Singapore.

Xu Huiyan competes during the women’s solo technical preliminary round in Singapore. Photo: Xinhua
Trending in China

Hunky Chinese coach has mothers flocking to enrol kids in swim classes

Young man asks people to refrain from sending him personal messages, as it has begun to affect his daily life.

A handsome Chinese swimming coach has mothers flocking to enrol their kids, with some even wanting to join his classes. Photo: SCMP composite/Douyin
Paris 2024 Olympic Games

All eyes on China swimmer Yu, 12, who takes stunning times to world championships

World will be eagerly watching preteen swimmer, whose times in May would have come close to winning medals at Paris Olympics last year.

Singapore

World Aquatics Championships: German Wellbrock wins 10km after water quality delay

Australia’s Moesha Johnson wins women’s race in Singapore after open water events had been postponed because of high E coli bacteria levels.

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