吳欣鍵

English

Ng Yan Kin is a Hong Kong male swimmer who specialises in breaststroke and is one of the athletes developed by the Hoi Tin Swimming Club. He recorded a time of 27.49 seconds in the men's 50m breaststroke, meeting the B qualifying standard for the World Short Course Swimming Championships. That event is organised by World Aquatics, and swimmers must achieve either an A or a B qualifying time at an approved competition; the B standard is the entry threshold immediately below the A standard, so reaching it is a meaningful marker of a Hong Kong swimmer's competitive level. Ng was subsequently selected for the Hong Kong, China delegation at the swimming events of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou. Those Games were originally scheduled for 2022 but were postponed because of the COVID-19 pandemic and eventually held in September 2023. The Asian Games are Asia's largest and highest-level multi-sport event, and swimming has long been one of Hong Kong's focus sports, with the squad entering numerous freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, butterfly and relay events; Ng was among the team's male breaststroke entrants. Elite swimming in Hong Kong is coordinated by the Hong Kong, China Swimming Association and the Hong Kong Sports Institute, with affiliated clubs such as Hoi Tin identifying and developing young swimmers who are then filtered through local age-group and open competitions into the Hong Kong team. Beyond these competition results and his club affiliation, however, publicly verifiable information about his date of birth, schooling, training history and recent activities is limited and remains to be filled in.