Press Release_2018 HK Schools Rowing Championships

For Immediate Release

 

HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No.3 Secondary School and Lam Tai Fai College Won the

Overall Boy’s and Girl’s Overall Champions in the Hong Kong Schools Rowing Championships 2018

 

The Hong Kong Schools Rowing Championships 2018 have a record breaking of 76 schools with more than 300 entries of students race in two days on 17 and 18 November at Sha Tin Shing Mun River.

 

The Hong Kong Junior Rowing Squad members and some schools under the “Sports Legacy Programme” also competed in the Championships to increase the competiveness.  The highlight of the Championships were on the medallist of the 2018 Asian Rowing Junior Championships, CHENG Cheuk Kwan (Lam Tai Fai College), she captured the Champions of both U19 Girls’ Quadruple Sculls Event and U19 Girls’ Doubles Sculls Event. Another intense event was the U19 Boys’ Single Sculls Event, PUN Yik Nam (Lam Tai Fai College) won the Gold Medal with the result of 3m39.61s just 1.68s faster than the silver medallist, Dylan Kairos LEE Robinson from German Swiss International School.

 

In order to encourage the development of rowing in primary school level, an event aged under 13 events was introduced while Boys’ and Girls’ champions went to YIP Hoi Lun (Sacred Heart of Mary Catholic Primary School Team C) and Charlotte BLYTH (South Island School) respectively.  It is hoped that through the primary level event, it can encourage the youngsters to develop their sport habits in their earlier stage and train up their good discipline and good team spirit through the sport of rowing.

 

According to the point system, the HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No.3 Secondary School re-captured the Boys’ Overall Champion in this year (last year is Hong Kong International School) while Lam Tai Fai College, with a strong girl team, beat the Jockey Club Ti-I College (last year champion) and captured the Girls’ Overall Champion in this year.  The summary of the Boy’s and Girls’ Overall Champion are as follows:

 

 

Rank

Boys’ Overall

Point

Girls’ Overall

Point

Champion

HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No.3 Secondary School

128

Lam Tai Fai College

100

1st runner-up

TWGHs Mrs Fung Wong Fung Ting College

100

Jockey Club Ti-I College

70

2nd runner-up

Hong Kong International School

76

HKTA The Yuen Yuen Institute No.3 Secondary School

52

 

This Championships is organized by the Hong Kong, China Rowing Association (HKCRA), supported by the Hong Kong Schools Sports Federation (HKSSF) and subvented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, which is a unique on water rowing competition for local schools rowing teams in Hong Kong. It provides a platform for the young rowers to compete with each other and at the same time to corporate with the team members enhancing team spirit and sportsmanship. Through this annually opportunity, the HKCRA encourages all the schools to establish its own rowing team for promoting the sport of rowing in Hong Kong and will also trying it’s hard to get the water rowing into the official event in the HKSSF in the coming years.

 

Lastly, we would like to express our heartfelt for the support from TOSHIBA, KT TAPE HK, and other supporting organizations to make the event a great success. For those schools interested in water rowing, please feel free to contact our Programme Executive/Senior Development Coach – Mr. WONG Chi Wing at 2696-2337 or email to hkcra@rowing.org.hk for further information.

 

Issued by: Hong Kong, China Rowing Association

Issue Date: 18 November 2018

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