黃培燊

English

Wong Pui San is a Hong Kong male swimmer who specialises in breaststroke and studies at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. In 2022 he lowered the Hong Kong record in the men's 200m breaststroke twice within two months: he first posted a personal best in July, and then, at a Hong Kong short-course age-group time trial in September in the 18-and-over category, he completed the 200m breaststroke in 2:08.26, 0.69 seconds faster than the mark he had set in July, becoming the Hong Kong record holder in the event. For a swimmer who was then only nineteen, improving the same national record twice in quick succession reflected a training and racing form that was clearly on the rise. In the same year he was selected for the Hong Kong, China delegation at the swimming events of the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, which were postponed by the pandemic to September 2023, competing alongside his teammates in a range of individual and relay events. The Hong Kong Polytechnic University has long emphasised dual-track development for student-athletes and its swimming team has won the local inter-tertiary title on many occasions, and Wong is one of the Hong Kong team swimmers the university has helped to develop. Breaststroke depends on the propulsive efficiency of the arm pull and the leg kick together with the details of the start, turn and finish, and the 200m distance in particular tests a swimmer's rhythm control and endurance. Hong Kong's men's 200m breaststroke record has been lowered by a succession of swimmers over the years, making the event highly competitive, and Wong's two record-breaking swims at a young age show that he holds a firm place among Hong Kong's breaststrokers. Beyond these results, publicly available information about his full competitive record, studies and longer-term development is limited and remains to be filled in.