簡綽桐

English

Natalie Kan Cheuk-tung is a Hong Kong butterfly swimmer who specialises in the 50m and 100m events and has long been a mainstay of the territory's short-distance butterfly and relay squads. The 2026 Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games, her third Asian Games, proved her breakthrough: she won bronze in the women's 100m butterfly in 58.05 seconds, breaking the Hong Kong record of 58.12 set by Siobhan Haughey, to claim her first individual Asian Games medal and Hong Kong's fifth medal of the meet in the pool. She said breaking her personal best twice in one day meant more to her than the medal itself. She also placed fourth in the 50m butterfly in 26.11 and was part of Hong Kong's silver-medal women's 4x100m freestyle relay team alongside Gilaine Ma, Siobhan Haughey and Li Sum-yiu, whose 3:36.59 improved on the bronze the team won at Hangzhou 2023. Through her consistent butterfly and relay performances, Kan has become a key member of Hong Kong's women's swimming team in recent Asian Games.