熊松良

English

Xiong Songliang (Chinese: 熊松良) is the head coach of the Hong Kong, China gymnastics team and has also served as head gymnastics coach at the Hong Kong Sports Institute. Before moving to Hong Kong he was head coach of the Australian national gymnastics team, bringing extensive international coaching experience and a distinctive training system. Since joining Hong Kong he has worked to build a complete gymnastics development structure covering the selection of coaches and athletes and ways of motivating both, hoping the system will endure beyond his own tenure. He advocates an encouraging approach to coaching, arguing that a coach should consider problems from a third-party perspective, calibrate the degree of strictness and avoid dismissing athletes, so as to build their confidence and let them find enjoyment in the sport. In 2019 he led a 10-strong Hong Kong squad (four men and six women) to the second National Youth Games in Taiyuan, Shanxi, as team leader, noting progress in both results and the overall competitive environment. The Hong Kong Sports Institute's 2022-23 annual report lists him as head gymnastics coach. In 2023, as head coach of artistic gymnastics, he led athletes including Angel Wong, Jim Man Hin, Ng Ka Ki and Ng Kiu Chung to the 19th Asian Games in Hangzhou; at the pre-Games press briefing he said the eight Hong Kong gymnasts (five men and three women) would contest the rings, vault, balance beam, all-around and trampoline, and expressed confidence in their performances.