{"id":124876,"date":"2025-11-10T00:41:16","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:41:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/124876\/"},"modified":"2025-11-10T00:41:16","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T00:41:16","slug":"national-games-what-to-watch-on-monday-as-hong-kong-rower-chiu-handball-team-hunt-medals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/124876\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games: what to watch on Monday as Hong Kong rower Chiu, handball team hunt medals"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday\u2019s opening ceremony may have marked the official start of China\u2019s National Games, but some of the sports were already days into their competitions.<\/p>\n

Besides cyclist Ceci Lee Sze-wing winning the road race in Zhuhai<\/a>, several other Hongkongers were in action on Sunday, and a few more have a big day to come on Monday.<\/p>\n

Here is our guide to the day ahead.<\/p>\n

Monday\u2019s highlights<\/p>\n

Medals are up for grabs on Monday for Hong Kong in rowing and handball, while the swimmers enter the fray.<\/p>\n

In rowing, Hong Kong\u2019s Chiu Hin-chun will contest the men\u2019s lightweight single sculls A final at the Guangdong International Rowing Centre in Guangzhou on Monday morning.<\/p>\n

\"ChiuChiu Hin-chun in action during last year\u2019s Olympics in Paris. Photo: AP<\/p>\n

Chiu will face stiff competition, having been beaten into third place in last week\u2019s qualifying round. Anhui\u2019s Zhu Bohao and Chen Wei-chun of Guizhou finished the 1,500 metres (0.9 miles) race ahead of him in Group 1, while Gu Jiantao, who finished fifth in September\u2019s World Rowing Championships in Shanghai, won the Group 2 preliminary.<\/p>\n

\u201cAll opponents were within one second of each other, so it\u2019s going to be very competitive,\u201d the 31-year-old said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday\u2019s opening ceremony may have marked the official start of China\u2019s National Games, but some of the sports…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":124877,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[78910,5560,78919,78914,78915,78912,68928,3448,3738,85,46,78913,51935,78917,5733,78911,105,78918,78920,78916,50305,65562],"class_list":["post-124876","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-anhui","tag-beijing","tag-ceci-lee-sze-wing","tag-chinas-national-games","tag-doo-hoi-kem","tag-guangdong-international-rowing-centre","tag-guizhou","tag-hong-kong","tag-hongkongers","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jiangsu","tag-kai-tak-arena","tag-liaoning","tag-shanghai","tag-shenzhen-universiade-sports-centre","tag-sports","tag-victoria-park","tag-wang-chuqin","tag-wong-chun-ting","tag-zhejiang","tag-zhuhai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124876","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124876\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/124877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}