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Skipping to a new record
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     A team of Hong Kong youngsters won 79 medals in the World Rope Skipping Championships in Sweden last month.
 
     Timothy Ho, Tommy Chow, Angus Wong, Man Lau and Parco Shum broke the Double Dutch Speed Relay record by jumping 671.5 times in three minutes.
 
     Chow also won the individual freestyle gold medal and the Hong Kong team defended their Group Demo Cup crown from 2014.
 
     They recently told news.gov.hk about their passion for the sport and how they plan to defend their title at the next championships.
 
     The story appears on news.gov.hk today (August 14) in text and video format.
 
Ends/Sunday, August 14, 2016
Issued at HKT 9:51
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