樊偉添

English

Fan Wai-tim is a coach with the Hong Kong swimming team who has long served as the squad's Hong Kong district coach, based at the Harbour Road training pool, and ranks among the most experienced figures in local swimming. A large number of swimmers have come through his coaching, among them Pang Wan-yiu, one of his favourite pupils; surviving coaching profiles note that many of those he developed later went abroad to study, and he has continued to work with successive generations of young swimmers. His coaching record spans several decades: he was appointed a Hong Kong team coach for the 1991 Tokyo Swimming Centre Invitational, the 1996 Asian Swimming Championships, the 1996 Tokyo Swimming Centre Invitational, the 1996 Short Course World Cup leg in Hong Kong and the 8th National Games in 1997. He was named Hong Kong Coach of the Year in 1996 and again in 2010, and received the Contributor Coach Award in years including 1997, 2001, 2002 and 2006. He travelled with the Hong Kong, China swimming team as a coach to the 13th National Games in 2017 and the Hangzhou Asian Games in 2023. Unlike recent coaching line-ups dominated by mainland and overseas coaches, Fan has spent his career developing swimmers at district and local level, a home-grown representative of Hong Kong swimming's move from amateur participation towards professionalisation.