{"id":132635,"date":"2025-11-14T08:39:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/132635\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:39:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:39:07","slug":"national-games-siobhan-haughey-leads-hong-kong-trio-into-100m-freestyle-semi-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/132635\/","title":{"rendered":"National Games: Siobhan Haughey leads Hong Kong trio into 100m freestyle semi-finals"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The fifth day of the National Games started with good news for Hong Kong swimmers, as Siobhan Haughey led a trio from the city who advanced to the 100 metres freestyle semi-finals.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Haughey, fresh from her gold medal in the 200m freestyle on Thursday night, moved comfortably into the semis on Friday, winning her heat in a time of 54.29 seconds, the fastest overall among the 45 swimmers.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Two other Hong Kong swimmers, 16-year-old Li Sum-yiu and 17-year-old Gilaine Ma, also qualified for the semi-finals, clocking 55.4 and 56.04.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The semi-finals are scheduled to take place at 7.07pm and 7.13pm.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Haughey\u2019s biggest competitor could be Yang Junxuan, representing Shandong, who set China\u2019s national record for this event during her starting leg for the 4x100m freestyle relay at the Paris Olympics, with a time of 52.48.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Hong Kong\u2019s men\u2019s team pursuit quartet in action at Hong Kong Velodrome. Photo: Elson Li\" data-qa=\"BaseImage-handleRenderImage-StyledImage\" class=\"e1gf69pb2 css-6ikqhs e445x7d0\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/7c4b52c6-272d-4b12-bd3b-983f1bc8c0a6_6a2a3d19.jpg\" title=\"Hong Kong\u2019s men\u2019s team pursuit quartet in action at Hong Kong Velodrome. Photo: Elson Li\"\/>Hong Kong\u2019s men\u2019s team pursuit quartet in action at Hong Kong Velodrome. Photo: Elson Li<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Haughey is still the Asian record-holder with 52.02 seconds, set two years ago in Germany.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The fifth day of the National Games started with good news for Hong Kong swimmers, as Siobhan Haughey&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":132636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[82832,5560,1657,82833,170,82834,3448,82835,82836,85,46,78913,82837,54488,82838,51960,82839,105,82840,82841,82842,50305],"class_list":["post-132635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-angus-ng-ka-long","tag-beijing","tag-china","tag-fanling","tag-germany","tag-gilaine-ma","tag-hong-kong","tag-hong-kong-golf-club","tag-hong-kong-velodrome","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-jiangsu","tag-li-sum-yiu","tag-national-games","tag-nicole-pearson","tag-paris-olympics","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-sports","tag-su-yuxuan","tag-thomas-ho","tag-yang-junxuan","tag-zhejiang"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132635","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=132635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/132636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=132635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=132635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=132635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}