South China Morning Post - Hong Kong Sport

The World Table Tennis Finals will get a new home this year, with the season-ending showpiece moving from Hong Kong Coliseum to Kai Tak Arena. While the WTT has yet to officially announce the move for December’s tournament, government sources and the local table tennis association both told the South China Morning Post it would happen. City officials had previously said the Coli...

Swimmer Siobhan Haughey has underlined her strong form again as she continued her build-up to the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games in September while keeping the 2028 Los Angeles Olympics in view. The Hong Kong star finished the nine-day Mare Nostrum Swim Tour in Europe in May – a key part of her preparation – with four gold medals and four silvers across three legs in Monaco, Canet-en-...

China topped the medal table at the Asian Under-20 Athletics Championships in Hong Kong on Sunday, while the host city also enjoyed a record-breaking week at Kai Tak Youth Sports Ground. The four-day meet was the first international athletics competition at Kai Tak Sports Park since its opening last year, with Hong Kong fielding 39 men and 30 women. The city’s athletes broke sev...

Eudice Chong will aim to take another step towards establishing herself in tennis’ upper echelons when she partners Veronika Erjavec in the third round of the French Open women’s doubles on Monday. Flying the Hong Kong flag in Paris following Coleman Wong Chak-lam’s first-round exit, Chong and Slovenian Erjavec overcame 12th seeds Caty McNally and Storm Hunter, and a pesky bee, ...

Zac Purton finally bagged his 2,000th winner in Hong Kong racing on Sunday, reaching the historic milestone in the first race of the day at Sha Tin. The Australian guided Rising World to victory in the Hong Kong Wu Hua General Association Cup Plate, just holding off a late charge by Almighty Warrior and jockey Ethan Brown to win by a short head. Ever Wealth, ridden by Nichola Yu...