Chow Yun-fat (right) privately likes sports and mountain climbing. (Picture / flip from Weibo)
The 67-year-old Hong Kong film star Chow Yun-fat used to invite artist friends to climb mountains and run together. He also went to Yangmingshan for a morning run when he visited Taiwan. Today (12) he participated in the Standard Chartered Marathon and challenged the 10-kilometer race. He also finished earlier. The competition took a total of 1 hour, 03 minutes and 58 seconds. Unexpectedly, as soon as Fa Ge appeared, many contestants rushed forward to take photos with the superstars, making the scene instantly become a large-scale star chasing fan meeting.
According to a report from “Hong Kong 01”, Chow Yun-fat participated in the “Standard Chartered Marathon” in the early morning of the 12th. This is not the first time Fa Ge has participated in a marathon. In 2022, she had signed up for the Hong Kong Cross-Country Championships. This time she participated in the 10-kilometer challenge, and he In the end, he failed to complete the “popular index” within 1 hour, and ranked 3584th among 20,341 players with a time of 1 hour, 03 minutes and 58 seconds. He was the top 20% of the finishers. It seems that Fa Ge even In his fifties, his physical strength is still quite good.
Chow Yun-fat said after the race that the atmosphere was very good today, and there were a lot of people, and the weather was hot and humid. It was a bit hard to run, but it was OK to run slowly. After the race, Huang Qile and Luo Yingchao, who were half-marathon couples and champions of the men’s and women’s races, came to ask for a photo with Chow Yun-fat. The people at the scene did not want to miss this good opportunity, and Fa Ge, who is close to the people, also completed them one by one, and netizens couldn’t help but praise “Fa Ge is so close to the people”!
Because Chow Yun-fat often climbs mountains and usually runs a lot, for this challenge of 10 kilometers, he said with a smile, “I have walked a lot of mountains, so I turned to running.” The outside world is also very curious whether Brother Fat will challenge the half-marathon or the full-marathon in the future, but he maintains Humorously replied “In a few years, when I am older, I am still young now”.