Hong Kong actor Chow Yun-fat participated within the twenty fifth Commonplace Chartered Hong Kong Marathon on Sunday.
The 67-year-old display legend started the race — which, regardless of being known as a marathon, was really 10 kilometers (roughly 6 miles) — at 5:40 a.m. and accomplished the race in 1:03:58.
Regardless of the dreary climate, Chow positioned within the prime 20% of runners within the occasion. His file was a results of rigorous coaching with a coach for over a 12 months.
“The coach informed me to not run too quick as there’s a slope forward,” Chow defined. “So I jogged slowly initially and conserved my power so I might velocity up in direction of the tip of the race.”
Chow, who’s also called “Fats Gor” (“Huge Brother Fats” in Cantonese), additionally took half in a cross-country race in December and plans to run the race once more in 2024.
Though Chow didn’t end in first place, he was rapidly overwhelmed by keen followers and media retailers after the roughly 6-mile run.
One fan who greeted him was boy band Error member Poki Ng, who shared a photograph on Instagram with the caption: “Touched by Fats Gor.”
Different celebrities that joined the annual marathon had been boxer Rex Tso Sing-yu, actor Sisley Choi, actor Dickson Yu, mannequin Inez Leong and extra.
The marathon is just one of Hong Kong’s 250 “mega occasions” meant to suggest the town’s return to normalcy after the pandemic.
Though the variety of individuals is often over 70,000, this 12 months’s occasion noticed 37,000 runners out of over 50,000 functions.
The winners of the 2023 marathon had been Philimon Kiptoo Kichumba from Kenya and Fantu Eticha Jimma from Ethiopia. Native runners who efficiently completed the marathon inside three hours had been awarded with 10,000 Hong Kong {dollars} (roughly $1,274).
Chow is a famend actor recognized for his roles in John Woo movies, comparable to “A Higher Tomorrow” and “The Killer.” The actor is most recognized within the U.S. for his function as Li Mu-bai in Ang Lee’s “Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon” and as Sao Feng in “Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s Finish.”
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