Hong Kong triathlete Oscar Coggins qualified for the Asian Games by winning bronze at the Asia Triathlon Super Sprint Elite championship in Xuzhou. This achievement comes after a previous withdrawal from the Tokyo Olympics due to mental health struggles.
Hong Kong triathletes Oscar Coggins and Bailee Brown failed to secure Asian Games qualification at the Lianyungang Asia Triathlon Cup. Coggins finished 12th and Brown ninth, with head coach Andrew Wright attributing their performance to fatigue and illness.
No Hong Kong athlete managed to secure Asian Games selection but there was more to like than not from a trio of encouraging World Triathlon Cup performances in Chengdu on Saturday. Oscar Coggins delivered the best swim and run legs of his career but had to settle for 41st despite finishing just 66 seconds behind winner Luke Willian. In the women’s race, Bailee Brown was also 41st, with Tallulah Wright seven places back; efforts that Andrew Wright, the head coach, said showed the pair had made...
A recently discovered recipe for success has been underpinning Oscar Coggins’ quest to book a ticket to this year’s Asian Games at the first time of asking. The only Hong Kong man to qualify for Saturday’s Triathlon World Cup leg in Chengdu, which is doubling as the first of three selection races for the city squad, Coggins needs to finish in the top 20 of a first-rate 68-man field to automatically qualify for September’s Games. The 26-year-old will dash down from his altitude camp in mainland...
Hong Kong won silver in the aquathlon team event at the Asian Beach Games in Sanya, Hainan Island, with a time of 1:02:35. The quartet of Bailee Brown, Wong Tsz-to, Hilda Choi Yan-yin and Mark Yu Shing-him finished behind China (1:01:44) with Japan taking bronze (1:03:54). Head coach Andrew Wright acknowledged the achievement despite noting lack of significant funding for the sport.
