{"id":624468,"date":"2026-09-23T02:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624468\/"},"modified":"2026-09-23T02:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T02:06:14","slug":"siobhan-haughey-stakes-claim-as-hong-kongs-greatest-athlete-after-fourth-asian-games-title","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/624468\/","title":{"rendered":"Siobhan Haughey stakes claim as Hong Kong\u2019s greatest athlete after fourth Asian Games title"},"content":{"rendered":"<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">Touching the wall first in 52.45 seconds \u2013 ahead of a pack of swimmers at least three years younger \u2013 to defend her women\u2019s 100m freestyle title successfully pushed Haughey\u2019s gold medal count at the regional multi-sports bonanza to four, after she also retained the 200m freestyle crown she won in Hangzhou the previous day.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">From showcasing to the world her immense talent in the water at the World Junior Championships in Dubai in 2013, the Hongkonger has gone on to scoop medals, one after another, across every major event, for 13 years and counting.<\/p>\n<p datatype=\"p\" data-qa=\"Component-Component\" class=\"e8zc9q40 css-1c6uqr6 ec74h0k1\">The five-time world champion is the city\u2019s outright leader in Olympic medals with four \u2013 two silver and two bronze \u2013 from two Games in Tokyo and Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Touching the wall first in 52.45 seconds \u2013 ahead of a pack of swimmers at least three years&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":624469,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[282316,282315,282317,282313,86429,51929,1120,2226,2938,3448,85,46,1437,282318,1900,5368,82839,105,37891,1880,282314,282320,282319],"class_list":["post-624468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-2020-tokyo-olympic-games","tag-2022-hangzhou-asian-games","tag-2024-paris-olympic-games","tag-2026-aichi-nagoya-asian-games","tag-asian-games","tag-cheung-ka-long","tag-dubai","tag-france","tag-hangzhou","tag-hong-kong","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-japan","tag-lee-lai-shan","tag-los-angeles","tag-paris","tag-siobhan-haughey","tag-sports","tag-swimming","tag-tokyo","tag-tokyo-aquatics-centre","tag-tom-rushton","tag-world-junior-championships"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624468","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=624468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/624468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/624469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=624468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=624468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=624468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}