(Swimming) 2 meet records smashed at MSSM swimming championships in Malacca

 

Malacca’s Low Zheng Yong broke Daniel Bego’s 100m record after clocking 58.78 at Hang Jebat Aquatic Centre in Malacca. File pix by MUHAMMAD SULAIMAN.

By AJITPAL SINGH - March 20, 2017 @ 8:48pm

 

KUALA LUMPUR: Low Zheng Yong of Malacca made a huge impact in the Malaysian Schools Sports Council (MSSM) swimming meet by breaking a 13-year-old meet record at Hang Jebat Aquatic Centre in Malacca today.

The 14-year-old swimmer posted 58.78 to smash Daniel Bego's record of 59.09 to win the boys' Under-15 100m butterfly event. 

Zheng Yong also won the 100m breaststroke discipline in 1:10.66. His time was not far off the meet record of 1:08.14 held by Tan Chong Heng of Sarawak since 2012. 

Kuala Lumpur's Khiew Hoe Yean was the second swimmer to set a new meet record today. He did so in the boys' Under-15 200m backstroke event by clocking 2:10.91. The previous record of 2:10.97 was set by Ian James Barr in 2010.

Selangor still lead the standing with a haul of 17 gold, 13 silver and seven bronze, followed by Malacca (8-2-1), KL (6-9-12) and Penang (5-9-4). 

RESULTS
Boys
Open
1500m freestyle: 1 Tan Tsien Ee (Sel) 16:52.32, 2 Brandon Goh (Sel) 17:24.17, 3 Ng Wei Jie (Joh) 17:32.42.
100m breaststroke
Under-12: 1 Jay Lo (Sab) 1:21.07, 2 Ng Yi Xuan (KL) 1:23.98, 3 Tong Yu Jing (Pen) 1:24.43;
Under-15: 1 Low Zheng Yong (Mal) 1:10.66, 2 Toh Ting Wei (Pen) 1:11.81, 3 Ong Yi Kao (Sel) 1:12.01;
Under-18: 1 Ng Jing Fu (Sel) 1:06.59, 2 Jude Wong (Joh) 1:07.96, 3 Kilian Ung (Sar) 1:09.24.
100m butterfly
Under-12: 1 Arniesh Chai (Sel) 1:09.32, 2 Yap Yong Jie (KL) 1:12.49, 3 Chan Jun Wei (KL) 1:13.09;
Under-15: 1 Low Zheng Yong (Mal) 58.78 (meet rec), 2 Koh Teck Chen (KL) 59.74, 3 Nicholas Gan (Joh) 1:01.85;
Under-18: 1 Patrick Lau (Sar) 58.81, 2 Sebastian Soon (Sel) 59.23, 3 Low Ken Ji (KL) 59.70.
200m backstroke
Under-15: 1 Khiew Hoe Yean (KL) 2:10.91 (meet rec), 2 Ng Yee Sheng (Mal) 2:21.39, 3 Chung Ze Xuan (KL) 2:22.70;
Under-18: 1 Brandy Chew (Sel) 2:16.02, 2 Terence Ng (Sel) 2:16.17, 3 Khiew Tze Yean (KL) 2:22.24. 

Girls
100m breaststroke
Under-12: 1 Law Li Wei (KL) 1:26.61, 2 Kristen Chong (Sar) 1:26.71, 3 Teo Sze Hui (KL)
1:26.75;
Under-15: 1 Angelina Chan (Sel) 1:15.13, 2 Keesha Ho (Pen) 1:18.64, 3 Geogene Wee (KL) 1:19.73;
Under-18: 1 Liew Chern Xin (Sel) 1:17.37, 2 Joanne Tong (Joh) 1:20.53, 3 Laura Kristen (Sel) 1:21.91.
100m butterfly
Under-12: 1 Teo Zhi Mei (Mal) 1:10.90, 2 Jesslyn Lim (Pen) 1:12.44, 2 Yong Xing Ru (Sab) 1:13.84;
Under-15: 1 Lim Shun Qi (Sel) 1:05.26, 2 Keesha Ho (Pen) 1:06.07, 3 Ong Yong Qi (Joh) 1:09.00;
Under-18: 1 Elynn Tan (Pen) 1:04.92, 2 Cindy Tai (KL) 1:08.87, 3 Tan Tyng (Swk) 1:08.91.
200m backstroke
Under-15: 1 Goh Chia Tong (Mal) 2:30.50, 2 Ong Yong Qi (Joh) 2:32.25, 3 Nessa Yip (Sel) 2:34.86;
Under-18: 1 Rosalind Pang (Sel) 2:28.66, 2 Nadia Adrianna Redza (Sel) 2:30.06, 3 Karla Lim (KL) 2:32.56.

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