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Swimmer Jasmine Ng Cheuk Yan became the youngest Hong Kong Paralympic medallist when she won bronze in Paris at the age of only 14—here’s how she went against all odds to reach her goal

By Zabrina Lo

It didn’t take long for Paralympic swimmer Jasmine Ng Cheuk Yan to warm up at her photo shoot with Tatler in mid-October. The 14-year-old, who constantly wore a big smile on her face, tried different poses for her cover shot: front on, hands on hips; or looking cheekily over her shoulder. “Jasmine says she wants to be a mermaid,” Ng’s friend and Paralympic badminton player Daniel Chan Ho-yuen, who was also at the studio for the December cover shoot, tells the photo team—to which Ng responded with a shy giggle that couldn’t conceal her excitement. But when it’s time to be serious, the effervescent teenager brings her A-game, and doesn’t let anything, not even hypochondroplasia, the genetic defect that results in her short stature and limbs, stop her from realising…

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Tatler Hong Kong (Digital) - 1 Issue, December 2024

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