Ressa Kaniadewi of Indonesia might have taken home the gold medal in the Women’s 200-metre Freestyle with a time of 2:02.74, but all eyes were on sisters Quah Ting Wen and Quah Jing Wen who battled it out and left it all in the pool.
She clocked times of 26.01s in the 50m freestyle and 1:02.04 in the 100m butterfly. Both were personal bests as well.
Siblings Quah Ting Wen and Quah Zheng Wen were named most valuable female and male swimmers at the Singapore National Swimming Championships, where 14 others also met SEA Games qualifying marks.
The 9th Singapore National Swimming Championships came to an end yesterday, putting a close to the six-day meet which displayed the very best of local swimming.
The third day of the 9th Singapore National Swimming Championships saw four national open and age-group records broken, as well as six swimmers meeting the qualifying marks for December’s Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Myanmar.
Quah Ting Wen, Amanda Lim (women's 100m freestyle), Quah Zheng Wen, Pang Sheng Jun (men's 400m IM) and Samantha Yeo (women's 200m IM) met their respective SEA Games qualifying marks.
Zheng Wen set a national under-17 mark in the 400 metres Individual Medley on the opening night of the championships two days ago and followed it up by breaking the 200m Backstroke U-17 record in the evening finals today.
Butterfly specialist Joseph Schooling set a new men's national 100 metres Butterfly record when he clocked a time of 54.19 seconds at the evening finals on the second day of the 7th Singapore National Swimming Championships.
