Asian Games 2023: Hong Kong swimmer Siobhan Haughey claims 50 metres freestyle silver, helps relay team to new city record
- Haughey swims a personal best as she pushes Chinese favourite Zhang Yufei to a Games record, collecting her fifth medal in Hangzhou
- She almost drags Hong Kong to a podium place in the 4x200m relay, after China’s king of the pool Qin Haiyang wins 200m breaststroke
Siobhan Haughey swam to silver in the 50 metres freestyle at the Asian Games on Thursday as she continued to lead Hong Kong’s medal charge in Hangzhou.
The 25-year-old earned the fifth medal of a fruitful Games for her personally, being edged out in a close duel with Chinese favourite Zhang Yufei.
It took a Games record to beat her, too, as Zhang touched first in 24.26 seconds, with Haughey also inside the old record in clocking a personal and city best of 24.34.
“The 50m free wasn’t really my main event, it’s still the 100 and 200m free,” Haughey said. “I hadn’t really trained specifically for the 50m but I knew my conditioning was quite good.
“I hoped I could swim my best time. I am happy to break the [Hong Kong] record, of course.”
Second place added to Haughey’s golds this week in her favoured 100m and 200m, along with bronzes in the 50m breaststroke and the 4x100m freestyle relay.
