Siobhan Howe wins first $50,000 at the World Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi

Hong Kong swimmer Sioban Howe succeeded in breaking the first world record in the World Swimming Championships in Abu Dhabi, by excelling in the 200-meter freestyle race with a time of 1:50:31 minutes. During the way you are in the middle of the hall and the crowds are close to the swimmers in a way that gives them a lot of motivation.

"I was expecting encouragement from my colleagues when I entered the pool, but I found myself very motivated when I found the closeness of the fans and the determination of the people," said the Hong Kong Hawaii swimmer, during the press conference after her achievement and opening her country's gold medals, to win a prize of 50 thousand US dollars after breaking the record. The pool keeps you motivated, in general the atmosphere was very nice.”

And amateur swimming was the first to achieve an Olympic medal in swimming in the history of her country, Hong Kong, by winning a silver medal in the Olympic Games in Tokyo, and she confirmed that she enjoys this year, noting that she always prefers to take things step by step and focus on each race in its time, noting that They want to reap more achievements.

In response to whether she expected to break a world record or not?, she said: This is something one should not announce in advance, I knew I was close to the world record and recently came close a few times and everyone around me kept telling me that I could do it.

I just tried not to think about it because all I wanted to do was really focus on my racing plan.

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