Hong Kong\u2019s Joey Lam Ching\u2011yan finished 7th in the final of the women\u2019s 1,500 metres short-track speed skating at the Milano Cortina Games on Friday, the city\u2019s best finish at the Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Lam finished with a time of 2:35.755 in a final that was won by Kim Gil-li of South Korea, followed by compatriot Choi Min-jeong with silver and Corinne Stoddard of the US claiming bronze.<\/p>\n
The best finish before Lam was Han Yueshuang\u2019s 18th place, also in speed skating at the 2006 Turin Winter Olympics.<\/p>\n
Making her debut at the Winter Olympics, the 19-year-old was joined by Alpine skiers Adrian Yung Hau\u2011tsuen and Eloise King Yung\u2011shih and fellow short-track speed skater Darren Kwok Tsz\u2011fung.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt is absolutely unbelievable. I still feel like I am dreaming. I never thought I could make it to the Final A before. Thank you to everyone who supported me along the way and encouraged me to never give up,\u201d Lam said.<\/p>\n
Chinese skater Yang Jingru recorded a time of 2:32.713 to finish fourth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong\u2019s Joey Lam Ching\u2011yan finished 7th in the final of the women\u2019s 1,500 metres short-track speed skating…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":302374,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[152314,152316,152315,152312,152318,152311,152317,3448,85,46,152319,152320,148459,152313,11471,105,11678,152321],"class_list":["post-302373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-adrian-yung-hau-tsuen","tag-alpine-skiers","tag-choi-min-jeong","tag-corinne-stoddard","tag-darren-kwok-tsz-fung","tag-eloise-king-yung-shih","tag-han-yueshuang","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-joey-lam-ching-yan","tag-kim-gil-li","tag-milano-cortina-games","tag-short-track-speed-skating","tag-south-korea","tag-sports","tag-winter-olympics","tag-yang-jingru"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302373","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=302373"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302373\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/302374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302373"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302373"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302373"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}