Clear goal, dedicated efforts – Lin Sizhuang

In age of 17, Lin Sizhuang, a second year student in senior secondary school with 12 years of swimming history: “My childhood was in poor health and sickness. When I was in kindergarten, there came a coach to select talents, with the aim of improving my body, I enrolled and started training. I just simply wanted to have fun at the beginning but I got pretty good remarks. As I also enjoyed swimming so I insisted on swimming until now. In 2014, I came to Macau and participated in many competitions with satisfactory accomplishments.

After Lin came to Macau, he joined the Macau representative team and participated in the 58th Milo/Pram Malaysia Open Invitational Swimming Championship , 2015 National Youth Games and Pacific School Games 2015 etc. and broke three Macau swimming records in 400m medley (4'46"02), 800m freestyle (8'43"13) and 1500m freestyle (16'45"55).

Lin Sizhuang, three Macau swimming records holder, feels fine about his achievements, yet realizes that there is much room for improvement. After joining high standard competitions, he reflected his shortcomings and deficiencies and now he keeps on training up for 12 hours per week. In the future, he hopes to break the Macau 400m freestyle swimming record and to continue surpassing himself.

Feel free to strive hard – Cheong Chi Cheng

“My name is Cheong Chi Cheng, a 17-year-old second year student in senior secondary school. I like playing table tennis.” This is a self-introduction of Cheong Chi Cheng, Men’s Single Champion of Macau Senior Men and Women's Table Tennis Competition. “I like table tennis as it can be exciting, can train my thinking and reaction speed.” He still remembers his first time playing table tennis, “I was in primary five at that time. I was playing table tennis with my father at a rented field; someone recommended me to join Table Tennis Youth Academy then I started formal training.”

“I am quite satisfied  with my current performance. I didn't expect to win Macau Open Championship as Chang Hoi Wa, my final opponent, who was my former coach. I opened my mind to take that challenge and enjoyed the game, finally I wonthe champion. That's surprising.” He said he sincerely enjoyed table tennis, “I'll keep training. Now I insist on training for three hours per day and six days per week. However, in order not to affect my school performance, I'd stop training for a few days before test. As I am still a student, I can't let up my study.”

Regarding his plan, he said, “I want to join more competitions to achieve better results.”

Persevere is the Way to Victory – Pui Pang Fong

Pui Pang Fong is 16 years old. He has been participating in badminton competitions since 2010, He won the championships for six consecutive years  of men's singles in Macau Elite Badminton Championships (from Division D to Division B) and five consecutive years of men’s singles in Macau Badminton Academy. Moreover, he achieved his goal in this March and became the youngest champion athlete in the record of Macau Badminton Open Championships.

“My mentoring teacher, Ip Peng Fai, introduced me to his badminton course when I was 9 years old. I started playing badminton at that time. I enjoy it as it helps training up my body and kills my time, and it is interesting. I was depressed when I was in primary school. I had chance to win in a competition but I was eliminated in small group competition. At that time, Mr. Ip encouraged me. Then I worked harder in training. And I obtained five consecutive championships since the following year.”

Not only Pui Pang Fong enjoys badminton, but also his younger brother and younger sister, who are also members of the Macau representative team. Their parents have been giving them a lot of support. “In the past 4 years, I have participated in many competitions as Macau representative. I still have room for improvement in different aspects. Compared with other higher level competitors, I am not in technical gap, but I need to strengthen my physical ability. Now, I keep training for three hours each time and six days per week to enhance my physical strength.”