A former Hong Kong athlete, who said the city was where he “fell in love with open-water swimming”, has swum 360 kilometres around a Swedish island as part of his battle with mental health and to raise awareness of the issue and for nature conservation.
Karl Palmqvist, a Swedish national who trained with the Hong Kong Sports Institute’s triathlon national development squad as a teenager, completed the 21-day swim around Gotland, Sweden’s largest island, on Thursday.
But the mammoth achievement…
