
Hong Kong swimmer clocks 58.05 seconds in the women’s 100m butterfly to claim bronze in Hangzhou.
Hong Kong's Natalie Kan Cheuk-tung broke a record set by Siobhan Haughey and achieved a personal best twice in one day to win bronze in the women’s 100m butterfly at the Asian Games.
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Natalie Kan competed in the women’s 100m butterfly at the Asian Games on Wednesday.
Hong Kong’s Natalie Kan Cheuk-tung beat her personal best time twice in a single day and broke a Hong Kong record set by Siobhan Haughey on her way to bronze in the women’s 100m butterfly at the Asian Games on Wednesday.
The 24-year-old touched the wall in 58.05 seconds to finish third behind China’s Yu Yiting and Zhang Yufei, eclipsing Haughey’s previous city mark of 58.12 seconds set in 2023.
Kan had already lowered her personal best from 59.40 to 58.34 seconds in the morning heats before shaving off another 0.29 seconds in the final.

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