Cheung Ka-long advances to knockout stage despite poor pool performance at Asian Games

Reigning Asian Games men’s foil individual champion Cheung Ka-long will need to find his form, and quickly, after scraping into the elimination round on Tuesday.

In a busy morning for Hong Kong’s athletes, cyclist Chloe Leung Wing-yee grabbed bronze in the women’s road race, and Siobhan Haughey eased into the final of the women’s 100m freestyle.

Cheung, meanwhile, struggled through the pool stages at Aichi Sky Expo, losing three of his five bouts to rank fourth out of six fencers in Pool 3.

While hardly impressive, it was still enough for the double Olympic champion to reach the knockout stages, where his first opponent will be Uzbekistan’s Danill Kravtsov, who has already beaten him 5-4 once on Tuesday.