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Tang Yik Chun is unquestionably the most exciting track and field star last year. Having won the bronze medal in the 10th National Games, the steel-made young boy has started a new training program for this year's Doha Asian Games.
Since having won the men's 100 metre in Hong Kong Open Athletic Meet 2003, Tang has been the focus of spot lights, and eventually became an important member of the Hong Kong team. Yet, comparing with other track and field athletics, Tang started his sports career late. He loved running since he was a primary school student, but it was until the time he chose his extra-curricular activities in the secondary school that he started to receive formal training. In fact, if not for his relatively uncompetitive physical strength, he might choose basketball or football as most others did. Tang recalled, "My sister was already representing her school when she was in primary six, but I never thought of training like her. Then in the secondary school, while most students went play ball games, I began to taste the satisfaction of out-performing others on running tracks. I run, since then."
It is never within Tang's expectation that he would become a star so soon. The 19 years old runner first represented Hong Kong in 2004, but has already won a men's 200 metre bronze medal in the 10th National Games, and the men's 60 metre gold medal in last year's Asian Indoor Games. Besides, he re-wrote the record of men's 200 metre of Hong Kong a few times, and won Watsons Water Athletic King Championships. All these bring enormous sense of success to the teenager. However, he never feels smug with what he has achieved. A runner's career is a life time competition with time, in which none can take a smug pause. After almost a whole year's competitions and training, Tang took a short break in December, and resumed training in January 2006. Ko Chi Hang, his trainer, intends to enhance Tang's physical strength and fine-tune his skills, enabling him to break Chiang Wai-Hung's 100 metre Hong Kong record. To achieve this, Tang said that he needs to improve his sense of concentration on tracks.
Although the victory in last October's National Games is remarkable, the most memorable game for Tang is the second round of Athletic King Championships in 2005, he broke both the 200 Hong Kong records and 100 meter Hong Kong youth records in the same championship. When asked to comment his sports career, Tang said that things are yet to take sharp, and there a long way ahead. Besides the coming Doha Asian Games, he hopes to take part in the Olympic Games, and use good performance to say thanks to his supportive family.
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