曹玥

English

Cao Yue is a coach with the Hong Kong, China swimming team based at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. A native of Shanxi, she reached the top of the podium in swimming at the 2014 Incheon Asian Games and went on to swim for the Shanxi provincial squad. After retiring in 2018 she became a coach with the Shanxi team, and in August 2022 she moved to Hong Kong at the invitation of her senior Xue Ruipeng, then coaching in the territory, to join the Hong Kong swimming team's coaching staff. In Hong Kong she works mainly with young swimmers, rising at 4:30am each day because her student athletes are in the water by 5:30am, and leading by example to help them overcome laziness and build self-discipline. At the 2025 Hong Kong Short Course Swimming Championships one of her 17-year-old charges broke the men's 800m freestyle short-course Hong Kong record; the swimmer had once wanted to quit, and Cao chose to give him more room to think for himself, arguing that swimming is a contest with oneself that requires inner motivation to sustain. Away from the pool she reads about sports rehabilitation and psychology and hopes to keep learning. She also looks forward to the 15th National Games, jointly hosted by Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macau, hoping more residents will come into the venues and experience the appeal of sport first-hand.