South China Morning Post - Hong Kong Sport

It’s been 23 years since Hong Kong’s women last played at a Netball World Cup, they will be heading back to the sport’s biggest tournament next year and may yet go as champions of Asia. On Saturday, only Singapore will stand between them and a first regional title since 1993; no wonder team manager Connie Wong struggled to contain her pride after a 51-47 win over Malaysia at Kai...

Luke Littler, Luke Humphries and some of the world’s best darts players could be heading to Hong Kong next year, with promoters hoping to stage a masters tournament in Kai Tak Arena. Officials from the Professional Darts Corporation toured the 10,000-seat venue this week and were said to be “very keen to host an event” at the end of August 2027. The tournament, which would take ...

Showing little inclination to wind down, and talking enthusiastically about the looming Asian Games and Swimming World Cup, Siobhan Haughey is looking and sounding like an athlete who fancies competing in a fourth Olympics. It is 10 years ago this week that a very green Haughey raced in her first Games in Rio de Janeiro, lowering the Hong Kong record in her 200m freestyle heat b...

The call of the ocean has always reached out to Hong Kong freediver Michael Sung Wai-yin, who is now one of the city’s best underwater divers, a sport he also views as a career. Raised in Wan Chai, Sung discovered the ocean at a young age when his mother, Grace Kowk, would take him to Deep Water Bay as a 10-month-old where she would swim while he floated alongside her. These ear...

In the list of priorities for Hong Kong sport, netball sits somewhere between baseball and lawn bowls in the public’s consciousness, which is why this week’s battle for a place at the World Cup is passing largely unremarked. For those in the know, the Asian Championships at Kai Tak Arena is pitting the city’s women against some of the region’s best; reaching the finals would go ...