AQUATICS: Seventh Heaven For Welson

PHENOMENAL: Most promising award caps memorable week for Sarawakian

SARAWAK'S Welson Sim capped a stellar outing at the Malaysian Schools Swimming competition (MSSM) by breaking another two  records on the final day of competition at the Darul Ehsan Aquatic Complex in Shah Alam yesterday.

The freestyle specialist surged to the boys' Under-18 400m freestyle gold in a record four minutes and 6.04 seconds, and erased Kevin Yeap's (Perak) old mark of 4:07.33s set in 2006.

Selangor's Yeap Zheng Yang finished second in 4:13.57s while Alex Tiong (Sarawak) clinched bronze with 4:23.47s.

Welson later anchored Sarawak (Alex Tiong, Granvil Ang, Roydon Ong) to the 4x100m freestyle gold, also in record time.

The team clocked 3:41.49s to better the old mark of 3:41.89s set by Federal Territories in 2011 with Selangor (Lim Jie Wen, Tan Yun Hung, Wong Jun Keat, Benny Ng) taking silver in 3:42.27s.

Penang's Yunn Fun Lim, Tian Fu Chin, Ye Xang Soon and Alwyn Tan clinched bronze with 3:43.66s.

Welson, who won a total of seven gold medals at the championships, said the relay victory was the icing on the cake after a highly successful week in Shah Alam.

"It has been a great tournament for me as I felt strong throughout the week," said the 16-year-old.

"We (Sarawak relay team) had expected to win the 4x100 freestyle but to break the record is a great feeling for all of us.

"It (tournament experience) is a positive experience I will look to build on as I believe there is always room to improve myself."

As expected, Welson -- who rewrote five tournament records -- and Selangor's Yap Siew Hui, who bettered four, won the boys' and girls Outstanding Swimmer of the Championships awards respectively.

Meanwhile, Selangor's Rosalind Pang was in equally impressive form when she anchored her team (Lim Chern Xin, Ho Jia Ern, Shannen Kay Chan) to victory in the girls' Under-12 4x50m freestyle and grab her ninth gold medal at the tournament.

Selangor won in a record time of 2:02.61s which erased the old mark of 2:03.35s set by Sabah in 2008.

Sabah (Jenny Ngo, Ilyani Muhamad, Chi Tong Yipp, Cheng Ka Man) finished second in 2:06.81s while Sarawak (Fatin Farahanim, Mandy Teo, Angel Lau, Toh Chieh Ran) took bronze in 2:10.00s.

In water polo, Malacca successfully defended their title when they beat Negri Sembilan 17-9 in the final.

After clinching the swimming title on Thursday, Selangor were crowned the overall MSSM aquatics champions (including results from diving and water polo) with a 42 gold, 37 silver and 16 bronze haul.

Sarawak, last year's swimming champions, finished second with 21 gold, 21 silver and 25 bronze while FT finished third (15-11-10).

Selangor finished with 42 gold, 37 silver and 16 bronze to emerge the overall MSSM aquatics champions.

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New Swimming Star Helps Selangor To Golden Haul And Overall Title

SHAH ALAM: Selangor celebrated not just regaining the overall title for swimming but discovered a new budding star in Rosalind Pang as the MSSM (national schools) swimming championships concluded at Shah Alam Aquatic Centre yesterday.

Rosalind pulled off the superb feat of winning all nine of the events she entered for in the girls’ 12 and Under age group as she anchored the Selangor quartet to a record-breaking victory in 4x50m freestyle relay.

And the perfect feat saw her named the best overall swimmer in girl’s 12 and Under age group.

Rosalind, together with Liew Chern Xin, Ho Jia Ern and Shannen Kay, clocked 2:02.61 to break the five-year-old mark of 2:03.35 held by Sabah in the 4x50m freestyle relay.

Rosalind’s other victories were in 50m and 100m backstroke, 50m, 100m and 200m freestyle, 100m butterfly and 200m individual medley as well as the 4x50m medley relay.

It was an astonishing turn-around from last year’s meet held in Kota Kinabalu where she only managed a single medal in the same age-group – a silver in 100m freestyle.

But then the Selangor coaches were already expecting her to shine, having dominated her age-group category in the Selangor state swimming meet for the past two years.

“I did not expect to win all the events I took part in. My favourite disciplines are backstroke and freestyle, so I was actually targeting for these,” said Rosalind, who lives in Kota Kemuning and is already part of the Selangor state swimming team. “The results here will boost my efforts to swim faster. I am hoping I will be able to move up and swim for the country one day,” she added.

Selangor captured the overall title with a comfortable total tally of 37-36-14.

In second-placed were Sarawak with 20-18-24 with Sabah edging Kuala Lumpur to third place with 14-12-13. The city boys finished fourth with 13-11-9.

Sarawakian Welson Sim claimed two more gold medals in record-breaking fashion to bring his tally to seven gold medals altogether.

Welson erased the meet record of 4:07.33 held by Kevin Yeap since 2006 in winning the 400m freestyle Open race in 4:06.04.

The 16-year-old Welson anchored the Sarawak team to victory and a new record of 3:41.49 in the boy’s 16-18 4x100m freestyle, bettering the previous record of 3:41.89 set by Kuala Lumpur in 2011.

Atlet Cemerlang MSSM 2013

MSSM 2013 Best Swimmers 

Rosalind Pang

Khiew Ho Yean

Yap Siew Hui

Eric Tan

Chris Tan

Welson Sim

Best Female Swimmer

Best Male Swimmer

Johan Keseluruhan MSSM 2013

MSSM AKUATIK 'DREAM TEAM TO ASG VIETNAM'

Kontinjen  Akuatik  MSSNegeri  telah menghantar atlet terjun , polo air dan renang  ke Kejohanan Akuatik MSSM  dari 24 Mac hingga 29 Mac 2013 di Pusat Akuatik Shah Alam untuk memperjuangkan kejuaraan negeri masing-masing. Negeri gergasi akuatik seperti Selangor (42 emas), Sarawak (21emas), Kuala Lumpur (15 emas), Sabah (14 emas), Johor (4 emas), Kedah, P.Pinang, Melaka dan N. Sembilan memungut 1 emas.
Dari  seramai 670 atlet renang, 77  atlet  polo air dan 48 atlet terjun yang telah menyertai  kejohanan ini, seramai 36 atlet renang akan dipilih oleh Jawatankuasa Akuatik ASG untuk mewakili  MSSM ke Asean School Games 2013.

Untuk kejohanan ini sebanyak 12 rekod baru telah dicipta seperti lampiran:



Terima kasih dan tahniah  kepada semua yang menang dan yang tidak berjaya, berusaha lagi pada kejohanan  yang akan datang.
Sekian.

Kejohanan tamat jam 5.38. Tarikh : 29 Mac 2013

         

Pungutan Pingat Nengikut Negeri Hari ke 5 MSSM 2013

Keputusan Renang Hari Ke 5 MSSM 2013 - 'Top 3 Placing'

Keputusan Lengkap Renang MSSM 2013 - Hari Ke 5

Keputusan Polo Air MSSM 2013 Hari Ke 5 (Melaka - Negeri Sembilan)

Keputusan Polo Air MSSM 2013 Hari Ke 5 (Selangor - Kuala Lumpur)

SWIMMING: Selangor Rule The Pool

All smiles from the Selangor Under-12 and Under-16 teams who set records in the 4x50m and 4x100m medley relay events respectively.

POWER SHOW: Relay sweep augurs well for the future

HAVING clinched their first overall title in more than a decade at the Pahang Malaysia Games last year, Selangor's future in the sport looks set to remain bright after their girls Under-12 and Under-16 relay teams set records in the Malaysian Schools Sports Council swimming championships yesterday.

The Under-12 quartet of Rosalind Pang, Liew Chern Xin, Shannen Kay Chan and Ho Jia Ern shaved over a second off the record of two minutes 17.81 seconds set by Sarawak in 2001 en route to clinching the 4x50m medley relay event gold.

Selangor won in 2:15.84s with Federal Territories (Karla Lim, Christy Teh, Anjali Lim, Pun Pei Jin) finishing second in 2:24.15s. Third were Sabah (Michelle Yong, Jenny Ngo, Ilyani Muhamad, Cheng Ka Man) who clocked 2:26.56s.

The gold in the event was the eighth Rosalind has won at the championships thus far.

The Under-16 team of Yap Siew Hui, Nadia Redza, Asmalia Filzati and Kimberly Ong took the 4x100m medley gold in 4:35.98s to erase the old mark of 4:40.06s set by Sabah in 2004.

FT's Tan Ro Ying, Koh Jia Yi, Cindy Tai and Zoe Bowden clinched silver in 4:40.24s while Penang (Ruth Chuah, Gan Xin Jie, Andrena Soon, Elynn Tan Yilin) had to settle for bronze on 4:49.50s.

Selangor team manager B.H Chin said her charges' exploits in the relay events are a healthy sign for the future of the sport in the state.

"To be honest, we had expected to win both events after comparing our swimmers' times to that of our competitors," said Chin.

"However, we did not expect to set record times and to do so is a great achievement for all the girls who have worked very hard."

With only 12 gold medals on offer on the final day today, Selangor -- whose athletes are coached by former national swimmers Mark and Marilyn Chua -- are now officially overall winners of the swimming competition with an unassailable 33 gold, 29 silver and 14 bronze haul. Sarawak (15-16-18) are second while FT are in third place with 13 gold, 11 silver and eight bronze.

Meanwhile, a fatigued Tia'Faang Der (Johor) did well to rewrite the boys' Under-18 400m individual medley record when he won the event in 4:44.73s to erase the old mark of 4:46.30s set by Selangor's Kevin Lim in 2009.

Second was Sarawak's Alex Tiong (4:52.56s) while Malacca's Foong Wei Yao clinched bronze with 4:57.37s.

Despite the victory, Faang Der -- whose personal best in the event is 4:40.40s -- felt he could have lowered the record even more.

"I felt quite tired after three days of hard swimming here," said the SMK Desa Skudai student.

Sarawak's Welson Sim missed out on a clean sweep of the boys' Under-18 individual freestyle events when he finished fifth in the 50m freestyle.

Penang's Alwyn Tan took gold in 24.64s while Selangor's Benny Ng finished second (24.76s). Perak's Wong Jie clocked 25.05s for the bronze.

In diving, Megan Elizabeth Teoh of Selangor -- who on Tuesday took the 1m springboard gold -- clinched the girls' Under-12 3m springboard title to complete a clean sweep in her age group.

Megan sealed victory with a 200.15 score ahead of Sabah duo Nur Ain Naadzmi (170.15) and Nurfazriyanti Jali (137.25) who finished second and third respectively.

The 12-year-old, who trains under coach Qi Jian Hua of China, said she was delighted with her performance after having to settle for silver and bronze in the 1m and 3m springboard events last year.

Selangor's Ng Zheng Hao, who won the 1m springboard on Wednesday, also notched a double when he took the boys' Under-15 3m springboard gold with a 269.45 score.

Negri Sembilan's Mohd Danial Asyraf (189.60) clinched silver while FT's Abdul Hakim A.Kahar finished third on 62.65.

The boys' Under-18 1m springboard saw Negri's Adzhar Imran Rusli edge Sarawak's Chan Wee Chiek to the gold with a 322.00 score against the latter's 310.90. Third was Sylvester Gaing Peter Jawa who scored 276.50.

The boys' water polo final today will see a repeat of last year's decider after defending champions Malacca and Negri both breezed past their semi-final opponents.

Malacca were rarely tested in their 21-3 win over Selangor while Negri overpowered FT 16-8.


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‘Little Dynamite’ Megan Wants To Make A Splash In Olympics

SHAH ALAM: She is only 11 years old but Megan Elizabeth Teoh is already thinking about representing Malaysia at the Olympics one day.

And the “little dynamite” took the first meaningful step towards achieving her goal when she pulled off a clean sweep for Selangor in the girls’ 12 and under age-group in the MSSM (national schools) diving championships at the Shah Alam Aquatic Centre yesterday.

Megan won the 3m springboard competition with a total of 200.15 points. It was her second gold medal, having won the 1m springboard on Wednesday.

“This is my best achievement so far. I took part in my first MSSM meet in Kota Kinabalu last year. I got a silver in the 1m springboard and bronze in the 3m springboard,” said Megan, who started diving when she was just seven and is now under the Selangor development programme.

There is no doubt where she wants to be when she grows up.

“I want to qualify for and compete at the Olympics one day. I want to be like Bryan Nickson Lomas, who has won many medals and made our country proud,” she said.

Ng Zheng Hao gave Selangor more joy when he bagged the boys’ 3m springboard title in 13-15 age-group. He garnered 269.45 points for his second gold after finishing tops in the 1m springboard on Wednesday.

Selangor Reign Supreme

Jubilant: The Selangor swimmers beaming with pride after their title-winning performances at the Shah Alam Aquatic Centre yesterday. — FAIHAN Ghani / The Star

SHAH ALAM: Two smashing performances from their relay combinations sparked off wild celebrations for Selangor as they regained the overall title – with one day to go – in the MSSM (national schools) swimming championships at the Shah Alam Aquatic Centre.

The Selangor girls’ 12 and under 4x50m medley quartet – comprising Rosalind Pang, Liew Chern Xin, Shannen Kay and Ho Jia Ern – splashed their way to a superb winning time of 2:15.84 to erase the 12-year-old record of 2:17.81 held by Sabah.

Anchor swimmer Rosalind had earlier raced to her sixth individual gold when she won the 50m freestyle in 29.85.

Then, it was the Selangor 13-15 girls’ 4x100m medley quartet of Yap Siew Hui, Nadia Redza, Asmalia Filzati Redzuan and Kimberly Ong who stormed from behind to overtake Kuala Lumpur and register another record-breaking effort.

The Selangor team posted 4:35.98 to wipe off the 2004 mark of 4:40.06 held by Sabah.

Nadia too had earlier claimed her second individual gold in the 200m breaststroke, clocking 2:42.28. With only 12 gold medals left to be fought out today, Selangor have sealed the overall title with their total haul of 33-29-14.

Last year’s overall winners Sarawak are a distant second with 15-16-18 while Kuala Lumpur are third with 13-11-8. Sabah are fourth with 12-11-9.

Selangor team manager B.H. Chin said they were optimistic of ruling the relays but “I did not expect them to bring down the meet records”.

“The meet records have been there for some time and the girls did well today,” she said.

“This is the new generation of swimmers. We have swimmers for every discipline and they have good potential to improve further.”

Faang Tia-a Der of Johor set the only individual record of the day in the boys’ 400m individual medley Open race yesterday.

The 16-year-old, a gold medallist at the Kuantan Sukma last year, clocked 4:44.73 to erase Kevin Lim’s 2009 record of 4:46.30.

Keputusan Polo Air Hari ke 4 - (Negeri Sembilan - Kual Lumpur)

Keputusan Polo Air Hari Ke 4 (Melaka- Selangor)

Keputusan Terjun MSSM 2013 - 3m Lelaki Bawah 15 tahun

Keputusan Terjun MSSM 2013 - 3m Lelaki Bawah 18 tahun