{"id":623834,"date":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623834\/"},"modified":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-22T11:42:11","slug":"flying-fish-haughey-takes-hks-gold-haul-to-three-at-asian-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/623834\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Flying fish\u2019 Haughey takes HK\u2019s gold haul to three at Asian Games"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/a22f3f0e5bcf4d38cd1a77497d9d8472.jpg\"\/>Residents gather at a shopping mall to watch a live broadcast of the Asian Games women&#8217;s 100m freestyle final, cheering for Hong Kong star swimmer Siobhan Haughey, in Hong Kong on Sept 22, 2026. (ANDY CHONG\/CHINA DAILY)<\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong swim ace Siobhan Haughey on Tuesday topped the women\u2019s 100-meter freestyle event at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/639971#HK&#039;s-Asian-Games-medal-tally-hits-nine-as-cyclist-Leung-takes-bronze-2026-09-22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan<\/a>, bagging the third gold medal for the special administrative region delegation.<\/p>\n<p>Haughey, who holds the event\u2019s Asian record, reached the finishing line in 52.45 seconds, followed by Yu Yiting and Cheng Yujie of China\u2019s national team.<\/p>\n<p>Dubbed \u201cflying fish\u201d, Haughey had won a gold in the women\u2019s 200m freestyle event on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>As of 4pm on Tuesday, the Hong Kong SAR delegation had won 11 medals &#8212; three golds, four silvers and four bronzes.<\/p>\n<p>ALSO READ: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/hk\/article\/639940#HKSAR-medal-tally-rises-to-eight-with-two-gold-wins-at-Asian-Games-2026-09-22\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">HKSAR medal tally rises to eight with two gold wins at Asian Games<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Hong Kong has about 580 athletes competing in 38 events in the 2026 Asian Games which runs from Sept 19 to Oct 4.<\/p>\n<p>Contact the writer at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.chinadailyasia.com\/article\/mailto:williamxu@chinadailyhk.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">williamxu@chinadailyhk.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Residents gather at a shopping mall to watch a live broadcast of the Asian Games women&#8217;s 100m freestyle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":623835,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[86429,12324,156567,3448,85,46,82839,105,37891],"class_list":["post-623834","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-asian-games","tag-athletes","tag-gold-medal","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-sports","tag-swimming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623834","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=623834"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/623834\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/623835"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=623834"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=623834"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=623834"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}