HKBSF

2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon

2015-02-12

2015 Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon was successfully concluded on 25 January, 2015. To promote “Equal Participation Sports for All”, Hong Kong Blind Sports Federation (HKBSF) had sent 22 blind runners to compete in full marathon, half marathon and 10K run. They included 1 running for full marathon, 9 for half marathon and 12 for 10K run.

This is the 7^th year HKBSF had participated in the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon. As our two fastest full marathon runners would have to prepare themselves for the upcoming Boston Marathon, they did not participate in the full marathon this time. We were glad to see that Mr. Chu Kin Wah had finished the half marathon with 1 hour and 57 minutes and Ms. Leung Yiu Wan finished the 10K run by 54 minutes. They would put in extra efforts to train up themselves for the next Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon in 2016.

Although our visually impaired runners have achieved better and better finishing time, regrettably there is no visually impaired category in this territorywide marathon run. We sincerely hope that the organizing committee of the Standard Chartered Hong Kong Marathon would set up visually impaired category next year so that the hard efforts of our visually impaired runners could be recognized and what’s more to build an inclusive society through marathon run!

The following are the competition results:

Visually Impaired Category Half Marathon:

Chu Kin Wah 1hour57min

Ho Yui Chi 1hour58mins

Chan Chi Shun 2hours05mins

Leung Siu Wai 2hours07mins

Yip Po Chun 2hours15mins

Chan Yuet Ying 2hours25mins

Tong Lin Nar 2hours26mins

Wong Lim Cheung 2hours29mins

Chang Siu Lung 2hours39mins

Visually Impaired Category 10Km: