Top track and field athletes to feature at Hong Kong Championships this weekend
- Organisers invite overseas athletes to help push performance as Asian Games entry deadline looms
- Europe-based long jumper Chan Ming-tai will be competing at home for the first time in 2 years
Track and field athletes will be given one last chance to impress the selectors with the help of overseas competitors when the Hong Kong Championships take place at Wan Chai Sports Ground this weekend.
Organisers the Hong Kong Association of Athletics Affiliates have invited more than 10 international athletes from Taiwan, Australia, and Macau to push local competitors at the two-day event with the Asian Games entry deadline looming.
Most of the city’s top athletes will be competing in the biggest domestic event with an additional 100 world ranking points at stake for the winners.
These include long jumper Chan Ming-tai, sprinter Ng Ka-fung, and hurdler Vera Lui Lai-yiu, the city’s only track and field medallist at the last Asian Games in Jakarta, where she came third in the 100-metre hurdles.
The only big name missing will be high jumper Cecilia Yeung Man-wai, who is still recuperating from an anterior cruciate ligament injury sustained at the previous Hong Kong Championships in 2022.
“We will soon name the initial squad for the Hangzhou Games and will of course take into consideration the results at the Hong Kong Championships,” Simon Yeung Sai-mo, senior vice-chairman of the HKAAA, said.
