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Hong Kong Swimmer Ho Sze-bei Advances to Finals at World Long Course Swimming Championships

(Photo: World Aquatics)

[Newyddion Tilu]Hong Kong swimmer Ho Sze-bei, who is currently competing at the World Long Course Swimming Championships in Qatar, won the 200-metre freestyle gold medal late on Wednesday (14th) Hong Kong time. Junior, she changed to the 100 meter freestyle and continued with her good performance. In the semi-final, she swam 52.92 seconds and came second in the overall score to progress to the finals at 12:02 tonight ( 16th), striving to turn the silver medal in the last competition into gold and win the second championship this year. (HoyTV channel 77 broadcast live from 11:30 pm)

Siobhan, who won the bronze medal in the 100m breaststroke race earlier and won the world championship in the 200m breaststroke last night, rested for about 13 hours and then moved on to the preliminary round of the 100m breaststroke. Siobhan won the silver medal in this event at the World Championships last year. Australian star Mollie O’Callaghan, who won the gold medal, did not take part in this event. E Shibei, who holds the Asian record with 52.02 second, is the winner of the women’s 100 free in this event The swimmer with the fastest registered time is naturally considered the favorite to win.

Siobhan started on row four in the ninth group of the 100 in the heats, and eventually swam 53.70 seconds, placing third overall and progressing to the semi-finals. After half a day’s rest, Siobhan entered the second group of the semi-final. She had already passed the first 25 meters and passed the pool with an advantage of almost half a second. Finally, she touched the pool first in the group with 52.92 seconds and moved on to second place in the overall score.

Marrit Steenbergen, who came second last year, came first in 52.53 seconds, Britain’s Anna Hopkin, Shayna Jack, who qualified first in the heat, and this year’s fastest time at the beginning of the year was 53.12 seconds. Douglass, who has won two gold medals this year, came third to fifth. The finals will start at 12:02 midnight on Friday (16th) Hong Kong time.

He Shibei (Photo: World Aquatics)

On the same day, the Hong Kong team had Adam John Chillingworth competing in the qualifying round of the men’s 200m breaststroke, swimming 2 minutes, 11.98 seconds and in 11th place in tonight’s semi-final; Lam Kai-jou swam 2 minutes in the women’s 200m breaststroke. preliminary round 36.19 seconds, ranked 25. In the preliminary round of the women’s 4×200 meter freestyle relay, Ma Ziling, Li Xinyao, Nie Zhiyan, and Mo Siqi swam in 8 minutes, 37 seconds and 41 seconds, placing 18th in general and miss the opportunity to progress.

This article was originally published by “Sportsroad” at the World Swimming Championships | Shibei entered the finals from 100th place to compete for his second gold medal late tonight”

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