{"id":619120,"date":"2026-10-03T04:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619120\/"},"modified":"2026-10-03T04:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-03T04:40:09","slug":"new-zealand-man-dies-in-suspected-drowning-at-hong-kong-swim-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/619120\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand man dies in suspected drowning at Hong Kong swim race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported the man was rescued off Tung Wan Beach after police received a report of a man falling unconscious.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Responders performed CPR before he was taken to Peng Chau Clinic.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">Police told HKFP the Kiwi was later airlifted to Pamela Youde Nethersole Eastern Hospital and pronounced dead.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">The swimming event includes 5.5km, 3.4km and 1.7km swims around the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\">More to come. <\/p>\n<p class=\"RteWPFVmeByCaDvyM\" style=\"display:none\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" title=\"https:\/\/www.nzherald.co.nz\/nz\/the-daily-h-your-fast-smart-guide-to-the-days-biggest-headlines\/VQR5CULLQRECZP2ORSWPGDORBU\/?utm_source=nzherald&amp;utm_medium=article&amp;utm_id=nz_cta\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Sign up to The Daily H<\/a>, a free newsletter curated by our editors and delivered straight to your inbox every weekday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hong Kong Free Press (HKFP) reported the man was rescued off Tung Wan Beach after police received a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":619121,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[304820,1975,6179,7126,9944,2837,20588,78,45499,5158,117,111,43,139,69,304821,7798,8841,110848,17933,80],"class_list":["post-619120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-zealand","tag-58yearold","tag-at","tag-died","tag-dies","tag-drowning","tag-during","tag-hong","tag-in","tag-kong","tag-man","tag-new","tag-new-zealand","tag-news","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-openwater","tag-race","tag-suspected","tag-swim","tag-swimming","tag-zealand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=619120"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/619120\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/619121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=619120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=619120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=619120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}