黃廷鏗

English

Wong Ting Hang is a member of the Hong Kong, China men's water polo team, playing as a defender or forward. He took up water polo at secondary school and went on to be selected for the Hong Kong representative squad, competing internationally on a number of occasions and building up experience through the team's fixtures. In a television sports feature he recalled being invited to join his school's water polo team by older students in junior secondary and taking to the sport immediately; having loved football and team activities since childhood, he was drawn to a game that combines swimming and ball play. His first overseas competition took him to Thailand for an Asian age-group water polo tournament, where he fell ill on arrival and could not enter the water; he was later found to have hand, foot and mouth disease and recovered only in the final three or four days, forcing himself to chase and defend against opponents through willpower. In 2023 he realised a long-held ambition by representing Hong Kong in the men's water polo at the Hangzhou Asian Games. Afterwards he said the team was closing the gap on opponents that had once seemed out of reach, and that the squad first needed to improve its fitness and build muscle, with the aim of training on for the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Games three years later. Water polo combines swimming with ball play and demands good swimming technique and fitness over long matches; it is a minority sport in Hong Kong and its players are largely amateurs. Details of his club, education and occupation are not available in reliable public sources.