Siobhán Haughey

Siobhán Bernadette Haughey (/ʃəˈvɔːn ˈhɔːhi/ shə-VAWN HAW-hee;[5][6] Chinese: 何詩蓓; Jyutping: ho4 si1 pui4; Cantonese pronunciation: [hɔː˩ siː˥ pʰuːi˩];[4] born 31 October 1997) is a Hong Kong competitive swimmer. She became the first Hong Kong swimmer to win an Olympic medal and the first Hong Kong athlete to win two Olympic medals in any sport, after winning silver in the women's 200-metre freestyle and women's 100-metre freestyle during the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics. She also won the first swimming gold for Hong Kong in 2022 Asian Games, and became the most decorated Hong Kong athlete of all time in one single edition of Asian Games with 2 Golds, 1 Silver and 3 bronze.

Siobhán Haughey
何詩蓓
Personal information
Native name何詩蓓
Birth nameSiobhán Bernadette Haughey
National teamHong Kong
Born (1997-10-31) 31 October 1997[1]
Hong Kong
Height1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[2][3]
Weight56 kg (123 lb)[1]
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesFreestyle
ClubEnergy Standard International Swim Club
South China Athletic Association (南華體育會)
College teamUniversity of Michigan
Medal record
Representing  Hong Kong
Women's swimming
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2020 Tokyo 200 m freestyle
World Championships (LC)
Silver medal – second place2023 Fukuoka100 m freestyle
World Championships (SC)
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2021 Abu Dhabi 200 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Melbourne 200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Melbourne 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2021 Abu Dhabi 400 m freestyle
Asian Games
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2022 Hangzhou 200 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2022 Hangzhou 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon 4×100 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon 4×200 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal – third place 2014 Incheon 4×100 m medley relay
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou 50 m breaststroke
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou 4×100 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal – third place 2022 Hangzhou 4×100 m medley relay
East Asian Games
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tianjin 200 m medley
Silver medal – second place 2013 Tianjin 50 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tianjin 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tianjin 200 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tianjin 4×100 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tianjin 4×200 m freestyle relay
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Tianjin 4×100 m medley relay
Summer Youth Olympics
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing 100 m freestyle
Silver medal – second place 2014 Nanjing200 m medley
Universiade
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 100 m freestyle
Gold medal – first place 2017 Taipei 200 m freestyle
World Junior Championships
Gold medal – first place 2013 Dubai 100 m freestyle
Bronze medal – third place 2013 Dubai 50 m freestyle
Siobhán Haughey
Traditional Chinese何詩蓓
Simplified Chinese何诗蓓

Haughey is Hong Kong’s first World Record holding swimmer after breaking the 200-metre freestyle record at the 2021 World Short Course Championships, as well as the first ever Short Course World and Junior World's champion. She has registered 21 Hong Kong records and 6 Asian records in her career (currently holding 20 and 5 records), and in total she has broken HK and Asian records for 94 times and 23 times respectively. She represents Energy Standard in the International Swimming League.

Personal life

Haughey was born in Hong Kong on 31 October 1997, shortly after the handover of Hong Kong, to an Irish father, Darach, and a Hongkonger mother, Canjo. She was baptised a Catholic at St. Margaret’s Church. Her elder sister, Aisling, is also a swimmer and represented Hong Kong in amateur events.[7][8] Her paternal granduncle was former Irish Taoiseach Charles Haughey.[9] Siobhan attended St. Paul's Primary Catholic School and St. Paul's Secondary School. She graduated from the University of Michigan in 2019, majoring in psychology.[10]

Swimming career

Haughey won gold and broke the meet record in the 100-metre freestyle at the World Junior Championships in 2013; she was the first Hong Kong swimmer to medal at the event. She won two silver and five bronze medals in 2013 East Asian Games, making her the most decorated Hong Kong athlete all time in a single East Asian Games.

In 2014, she gained another two silver medals in the women's 100-metre freestyle and 200m individual medley at the Youth Olympics, again setting history for the Hong Kong swimming team. In 2016, she was named Swimmer of the Championships at the Big Ten Conference championships and helped lead the Michigan Wolverines swimming and diving team to the women's team title for the first time since 2004. [11]

In 2015 Haughey qualified for the Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro as the first Hong Kong swimmer to make the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and was selected to represent Hong Kong in the women's 200-metre freestyle and 200-metre individual medley.[12] At the 2016 Rio Olympics, Haughey won her heat in the 200-metre freestyle, but finished sixth in the semifinals and thirteenth overall. Despite failing to advance to the finals, she still made history as the first Hong Kong swimmer to advance beyond the heats in the modern Olympics era.[13]

In 2017 Haughey participated in the World Aquatics Championships, and finished 5th in women's 200-metre freestyle. This marked the first time Hong Kong had a swimmer in a final at the long course World Championships meet. A few weeks later in the Taipei Universiade, she won gold in both the women's 100-metre freestyle and 200-metre freestyle.

In 2019 Haughey stepped up again in the World Aquatics Championships and raced her fastest time ever in the 200-metre freestyle event, finishing with a time of 1:54.98 to fall just .2 shy of the podium and finishing fourth. As such, Haughey became the first woman ever from Hong Kong to hit a sub-1:55 200m freestyle time.[14] Later at the inaugural International Swimming League season, she continued her onslaught of the Hong Kong National Records in swimming, setting new Asian records in both the 200-metre freestyle and 50-metre breaststroke.

Haughey represented Hong Kong again at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, where she won silver in the 200-metre freestyle and 100-metre freestyle. She became the first Hong Kong swimmer to win an Olympic medal and the first Hong Kong athlete to win two Olympic medals in any sport.[15][16][17] In the 2021 International Swimming League season, she went undefeated in the 200-metre freestyle event throughout the season and set a new Asian record in the 100-metre freestyle.[18] Additionally, she finished second in the ISL season MVP standings, 43.5 points behind Energy Standard teammate Sarah Sjöström and 64.5 points ahead of third place.[19]

Later in the year, she followed up her performance at the Tokyo Olympics and the ISL with a historic gold medal in the 200-metre freestyle at the 2021 Short Course World Championships.[20][21] In the process, she broke Sarah Sjöström's 2017 world record by 0.12 seconds and become the first Hong Kong swimmer to win a medal at the Short Course Worlds, plus the first world record holder representing Hong Kong.[22][23] She won her second gold medal two days later in the 100-metre freestyle event, plus a bronze medal in 400-metre freestyle.[24][25]

At the 2022 Short Course World Championships, Haughey successfully defended her title in the 200-metre freestyle. She added a silver medal to her tally with a runner-up finish in the 100-metre freestyle, trailing behind Emma McKeon.

At the 2023 World Aquatics Championships, Haughey captured a silver medal in the 100-metre freestyle -- the first Hong Kong swimmer to finish on the podium at the World Aquatics Championships.

At 2022 Asian Games, Haughey won a pair of gold medals in 100-metre and 200-metre freestyle, together with a silver medal in 50-metre freestyle and bronze in 50-metre breastroke, 4x100 metre medley relay and 4x100 metre freestyle relay. During the process she broke the Asian record of 100-metre freestyle in 52.17, and broke 7 Hong Kong records in total, including all 3 relay events.

Honours
  • Best of the Best Hong Kong Sports Stars Award for Women (2021, 2022)
  • Three-time winner of the Hong Kong Sports Stars Award (2017, 2019, 2021, 2022)
  • Two-time winner of the Hong Kong Junior Sports Stars Awards (2013, 2014)
  • Three-time SwimSwam Asian Female Swimmer of the Year (2019, 2020, 2021)
  • HKSAR Silver Bauhinia Star (2021)
  • HKSAR Chief Executive's Commendation for Community Service (2017)
  • Big Ten Medal of Honor (2019)
  • 14-time CSCAA All-American (2016-19: 200-yard Freestyle; 2017-19: 800-yard Freestyle Relay; 2018-19: 100-yard Freestyle, 200-yard Freestyle Relay, 400-yard Freestyle Relay; 2019: 400-yard Medley Relay)
  • 11-time CSCAA All-America Honorable Mention (2016-18: 200-yard IM; 2017-18: 400-yard Medley Relay; 2016-17: 100-yard Freestyle, 400-yard Freestyle Relay; 2016: 200-yard Freestyle Relay, 800-yard Freestyle Relay)
  • 15-time Big Ten champion (2016-19: 200-yard Freestyle; 2016, 2018-19: 400-yard Freestyle Relay; 2016-17, 2019: 800-yard Freestyle Relay; 2016, 2019: 100-yard Freestyle; 2016, 2018: 200-yard IM; 2019: 200-yard Freestyle Relay)
  • 2016 Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships
  • Four-time All-Big Ten (2016-19: First Team)
  • Two-time CSCAA Scholar All-American (2017-18)
  • Three-time Academic All-Big Ten (2017-19)
  • Big Ten Distinguished Scholar (2018)
  • Four-time U-M Athletic Academic Achievement (2016-19)

World records

Short Course (25m)
No. Event Time Meet Location Date Status Ref
1 200 m freestyle 1:50.31 2021 World Championships (25 m) Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 16 December 2021 Current [27]

References
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