Hong Kong star swimmer Siobhan Haughey is on the mend with the World Championships still in her sights after suffering an ankle injury last weekend.
Haughey, who is training with coach Tom Rushton and his nomadic group of international athletes, pulled out of last week’s Mare Nostrum Swim Tour after injuring her ankle outside of training.
“She has been working with the Hong Kong physio each day,” Rushton said of Haughey’s progress. “We had imaging done to make sure nothing was broken, and that was also checked by the doctor back at the Hong Kong Sports Institute.”
“In Barcelona, we have great contacts with CN Sant Andreu, who hosted the Barcelona stop of the Mare Nostrum, so we were able to access a lot of their facilities.”
Rushton says that Haughey, as of Monday, is still in a walking boot and will be for a few more days, but that the sports medicine people believe that she will be okay by the World Championships, which begin in Budapest on June 18.
Rushton says that in spite of the injury, Haughey didn’t miss any training. “Each day, we were first in the water at Mare Nostrum to get clear water, and we also did a few sea swims.”
Haughey did 6×100 at 400 free pace on Saturday to see if she might be able to start the 400 free on Sunday in Canet, the final stop of the series, but Rushton says they ultimately decided there wasn’t enough upside to racing at this point.
The team will take a 2 day break and then begin taper at the Fenerbahçe Swim Club in Istanbul.
The 24-year old Haughey swam collegiately at the University of Michigan, where she was a 14-time All-American, 15-time Big Ten Champion, and the 2016 Big Ten Swimmer of the Championships. Internationally, she won matching silver medals in the 100 and 200 meter freestyles at the Tokyo 2020 Summer Olympics, making her Hong Kong’s first-ever Olympic medal winning swimmer, and first athlete in any spot to win multiple medals. She won World Short Course Championships in December in both the 100 and 200 freestyles. She doesn’t have any official long course swims since the Tokyo 2020 Olympic Games, however.
Including relays, Haughey holds Hong Kong National Records in 17 different events.
Get better soon!! 💪💪
Beat the Aussies! Oy! Oy! Oy!
Sure why not. Time to do it when the big dogs Emma McKeon and Ariarne Titmus are not swimming.
Whoever her coach is they need to remedy that final 15 meters. With that type of lead she shouldn’t be chased down. Same thing in 2019 when it was basically a 4-way dead heat very late and Haughey was the one who ended up without a medal.
That’s not what happened in 2019 at all. You should go and actually look at the splits.
Completely forgetting who chased her down, eh?
Hint:
The swimmer who chased Haughey down in 200 was also the same swimmer who chased down Katie Ledecky, arguably the greatest female swimmer ever, in 400….twice
This Ruston is just trying to take credit for everyone that does a week camp with him. 🤣🤣
The coach who got her to this level is the one and only Rick Bishop. ( from 2015 up until 2021)
Tom is doing a great job working with Siobhan. There are several coaches that work to support Siobhan in her training and racing throughout the year. David Wong, Coach Chen and myself. Our goal is to help Siobhan be a happy, healthy, successful swimmer.
Thanks Rick for the feedback and congrats for taking her from a semi finalist in Rio to a medal contender at the highest stage in 4-5 years. 👏👏
However, Swimswam needs to detail her coaching situation in future articles, so that all 4 coaches take credit not just one.
Every time we are writing an article about Siobhan, we are not writing a full biography of her.
This article is about an injury, and the coach who is coaching her now has the most details, so we quoted him. When she’s training with another coach, and they have the most details to share with us, then great, we’ll quote them – as we’ve done with Rick and other coaches in the past.
I really don’t know what point you’re trying to score by repeating this same comment over and over again and trying to discredit Tom’s work with her (personal grudge?)/
Lmao you pretend to know everything about her training situation just to get called out by someone who actually knows it and now you blame swimswam when it’s just u being an annoying person lol
What are you on about? Even you yourself are saying Rick was her coach until 2021 Games. Tom coached her for 4 months in 2021 leading up to the World SC Champs where she broke the WR and since then has been keeping in contact with her and helping.
Mate you’ve been claiming that she’s on a “one week training camp” with Rushton for at least a month now.
Get it together and pull your head out.
This kind of mindset leads to putting coaches on a pedestal and can result in turning a blind eye to abuses.
Lots of coaches can have a hand in guiding swimmers to their success, no need to diminish Tom’s contributions.