Hong Kong Rowing Team Captured Three Silver Medals in the Frist Day of Race in the Asian Rowing Championships
Hong Kong crews made a great start on the first day of finals at the Asian Rowing Championships in Jiashan, China today. The men’s pair of WONG Wai Kin and LAW Hiu Fung were the first crew to race and pushed the heavier Chinese crew all the way to the finish line to take the silver medal ahead of Kazakhstan.
Next up was LEE Ka Man returning the lightweight single sculls event after stroking the Hong Kong double at the Olympic Games in Rio. Despite not having trained in the single all year, LEE made an impressive start and rowed neck and neck with the sculler from Iran, with both these crews leading China and the Asian Games gold medalist from Korea. At the line the Iranian sculler just held on to gold despite a fierce push by LEE, who took silver. Both scullers recorded times faster than the winner of the open event.
The last race of the day for Hong Kong was the lightweight men’s double scull with Olympic crew TANG Chiu Mang and CHIU Hin Chun in action. This was also a very fast race with China, Hong Kong, Korea and Japan running side by side in the first part of the race. In the second half of the race however, the strong Chinese crew drew away to take gold and Hong Kong pulled ahead of Korea to secure the third silver medal of the day for the HKSAR.
Hong Kong crews will be in action again tomorrow for three more finals – the Men’s Single, Men’s Lightweight Single and Men’s Lightweight Fours.
Congratulations to Hong Kong Rowing Team and best wishes for tomorrow races!