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South China Morning Post
07-05-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong triathletes put friendships on hold as National Games selection gets serious
As Hong Kong's triathletes prepare to suspend friendships in the name of a National Games selection fight, head coach Andrew Wright admitted on Wednesday that it was not ideal for them to be 'training under one roof'. Advertisement The city team will have eight men and three women in Saturday's Chengdu World Triathlon Cup, which is doubling as a selection race for November's Games. While Cade and Tallulah Wright have travelled to the mainland from Edinburgh, where they had university exams, the rest of the squad have been preparing cheek-by-jowl at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Wright said he had not noticed relationships growing frosty, but acknowledged 'there are some disadvantages' to them being in such proximity. 'Part of that is they get to see each other's training, which can be strange,' Wright said. Advertisement 'They're teammates, so they have to get on and create a good environment, but it's an individual sport and they have to beat each other, so that's pretty hard.
South China Morning Post
06-04-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong triathletes earn sprint relay bronze, say ‘phenomenal' China now team to beat
Hong Kong's triathletes have set themselves the objective of overtaking mainland China, after the city team claimed relay bronze at the Asia Sprint Championships on Sunday. Advertisement The dominant Chinese, whose team included Lin Xinyu and Yang Yifan, the women's gold and silver medallists from Saturday's individual race, crossed in one hour, 31 minutes and four seconds, after leading from the start on Central Harbourfront. Their men, Fan Junjie and Zhang Xirui, had been third and fifth, respectively, the previous day. The Hong Kong quartet of sisters Cade and Tallulah Wright, Robin Elg and Jason Ng Tai-long came home in 1:32.15, two seconds behind Japan, who left out individual men's winner Takumi Hojo from their team. A second Hong Kong foursome of Hilda Choi Yan-yin, Oscar Coggins, Charlotte Hall and Mark Yu Shing-him finished seventh in 1:34.24. Hong Kong team (from left) Jason Ng, Tallulah Wright, Robin Elg, and Cade Wright. Photo: Jonathan Wong Tallulah Wright, who acknowledged the fierce inter-squad competition for National Games selection in November, said while Japan used to be the benchmark 'China blew it out of the park, they were phenomenal'.
South China Morning Post
01-03-2025
- Sport
- South China Morning Post
Hong Kong's triathlon course dubbed best in world at National Games test event
This year's National Games triathlon in Hong Kong will offer the best course in the world, the city's head coach Andrew Wright said after day one of the harbourfront test event on Saturday. Advertisement Staging the event in November promised to do wonders for the sport locally, the coach suggested, while athlete Tallulah Wright anticipated a 'phenomenal' Games and said a partisan crowd 'pushed me harder' after her fifth place in Saturday's women's race. 'The Games is going to be awesome,' Andrew Wright said. 'This is the best course in the world, and it's going to have a big impact on the development of triathlon in Hong Kong.' The test event did, however, underline the scale of the task for the city's finest in November. Tallulah Wright was the best performer, with Hilda Choi Yan-yin finishing a place back in sixth, an effort matched by Wong Tsz-to among the men. Competitors dive into the harbour as the men's race begins on the harbourfront. Photo: Elson Li Shandong province supplied both of the winners. Zhang Xirui was first in the men's race in 55 minutes and 56 seconds, and victory in the women's event went to Yang Yifan, in one hour, two minutes and nine seconds.
