SWIMMING
48th National Inter-School Swimming Championships 2007
Session 9 A, B, C Divisions Finals
Tuesday, 10 July 07, 9.00am – 11.30am at Toa Payoh Swimming Complex
Picture story by Red Sports reader, Jonathan Kwong. Thanks!
Raffles Junior College, Raffles Institution and Raffles Girls’ School combined to make it a sweep of five division titles at the 48th National Inter-School Swimming Championships 2007.
(Boys followed by Girls)
‘A’ Division
1st Raffles Junior College; Raffles Junior College
2nd Anglo-Chinese School (Independent); Anglo-Chinese Junior College
3rd Anglo-Chinese Junior College; Temasek Junior College
4th Temasek Junior College; St Andrew’s Junior College
‘B’ Division
1st Raffles Institution; Raffles Girls’ School
2nd Anglo-Chinese School (Independent); Singapore Sports School
3rd Singapore Sports School; St Nicholas Girls’ School
4th Anglo-Chinese School (Barker Road); Methodist Girls’ School
‘C’ Division
1st Anglo-Chinese School (independent); Raffles Girls’ School
2nd Raffles Institution; Methodist Girls School
3rd Singapore Sports School; St Nicholas Girls’ School
4th Maris Stella High; Paya Lebar Methodist Girls’ School
It was great weather for the Swimming Championships. (Photo 1 © Jonathan Kwong)
At the bleachers of the Toa Payoh Swimming Complex. (Photo 2 © Jonathan Kwong)
School Spirit on display as many banners from the schools were put up in support of the competitors. (Photo 3 © Jonathan Kwong)
Rivals in the swimming scene, the ACS and Raffles family of schools set up camp next to each other, with large banners and groups of student supporters turning up in full force. (Photo 4 © Jonathan Kwong)
Swimmers anxiously waiting their events at the competitor’s holding area. (Photo 5 © Jonathan Kwong)
Competitors fast off the blocks in the A Girls 50m Backstroke. Arabelle Wei (Lane 5) of Raffles Junior College (RJC) won with a time of 33.76s. (Photo 6 © Jonathan Kwong)
A Girls 50m Backstroke – Samantha Koh of Hwa Chong Institution begins to overtake Joanne Phua of Anglo-Chinese Junior College in the last 20m. (Photo 7 © Jonathan Kwong)
Start of the C Boys 200m Breaststroke. (Photo 8 © Jonathan Kwong)
C Boys 200m Breaststroke: Joel Chong (with hand raised, Lane 5) of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) celebrates his second place finish in 2:38:85. Gerald Sim (Lane 4) of Raffles Institution wins the race with a time of 2:37:67. (Photo 9 © Jonathan Kwong)
C Boys 200m Breaststroke: Japher Lim of Raffles Institution comes in third place at 2:44:12. (Photo 10 © Jonathan Kwong)
ACS(I)’s Austin Peh (black cap) and Gerard Tan (white cap) making a turn as they complete the first lap in the B Boys 200m Breaststroke. (Photo 11 © Jonathan Kwong)
Kelvin Chan of Singapore Sports School (SSP) en route to this third place finish in the B Boys 200m Breaststroke. He completed in a time of 2:36:23. (Photo 12 © Jonathan Kwong)
A Boys 200m Breaststroke: Benedict Yeo of Raffles Junior College keeps well ahead of the competition with a winning time of 2:30:26, five seconds ahead of his second-place teammate Darran Foo (2:35:68). (Photo 13 © Jonathan Kwong)
C Girls 200m Freestyle: Cheryl Tan of Raffles Girls’ School wins by a comfortable five seconds in a time of 2:23:10. Phenomenally, it is still 13.22s shy of Joscelin Yeo’s 14-year old record of 2:09:88, back in 1993 with MGS. (Photo 14 © Jonathan Kwong)
Competitors taking their places in the A Girls 200m Freestyle. (Photo 15 © Jonathan Kwong)
Genevieve Low (RJC), winner of the A Girls 200m Freestyle (2:26:23). (Photo 16 © Jonathan Kwong)
Dzulhaili Mohd Kamal (SSP) wins the C Boys 100m Butterfly by a narrow margin (1:00:90). In second place is Yeo Jia Chen (RI) coming in at 1:01:05. (Photo 17 © Jonathan Kwong)
Liu Xing Yu (SSP) in the B Boys 100m Butterfly. (Photo 18 © Jonathan Kwong)
Nigel Lim of ACS(I) wins the A Boys 100m Butterfly with a time of 58:59. (Photo 19 © Jonathan Kwong)
Taking a breather after the conclusion of the A Boys 100m Butterfly. (Photo 20 © Jonathan Kwong)
Selena Tan bags another gold for RGS in the C Girls 100m Breaststroke, finishing in 1:18:01. (Photo 21 © Jonathan Kwong)
Lee Dan Dan of Singapore Sports School warms up for the B Girls 100m Breaststroke. (Photo 22 © Jonathan Kwong)
Standing at the edge of her diving board, Grace Choy (RJC) prepares to dive in for the A Girls 100m Breaststroke. She comes in second with a time of 1:18:91, while Chen Yanni (ACJC) bags gold with 1:17:96. (Photo 23 © Jonathan Kwong)
Eventual winner Chen Yanni (ACJC) on the return leg of the A Girls 100m Breaststroke. (Photo 24 © Jonathan Kwong)
Chen Yanni (ACJC) forges ahead in the A Girls 100m Breaststroke. (Photo 25 © Jonathan Kwong)
RJC’s Grace Choy finishes second in the A Girls 100m Breaststroke. (Photo 26 © Jonathan Kwong)
ACJC teammates Chen Yanni (black cap) and Lim Jan Ooi (navy blue cap) at the end of the A Girls 100m Breaststroke. (Photo 27 © Jonathan Kwong)
Benjamin Ong (black cap) of ACS(I) in the B Boys 200m Backstroke. He finishes third with a time of 2:21:75. (Photo 28 © Jonathan Kwong)
Zach Ong of ACS(I) receiving the gold medal for the A Boys 200m Backstroke which he won in record time. He and teammate Nicholas Chew broke the old record of 2:14:88 set in 1995 by Foo Jia (ACJC) with their times of 2:10:20 and 2:13:63 respectively. (Photo 29 © Jonathan Kwong)
Clara Wong (MGS) and Cheryl Tan (RGS) on the starting boards in the C Girls 200m IM (individual medley). (Photo 31 © Jonathan Kwong)
Clara Wong (MGS) and Cheryl Tan (RGS) dive in at the start of the C Girls 200m IM. (Photo 32 © Jonathan Kwong)
Plunging in – C Girls 200m IM. (Photo 33 © Jonathan Kwong)
The backstroke leg of the C Girls 200m IM. (Photo 34 © Jonathan Kwong)
C Girls 200m IM – Cheryl Tan (RGS) makes a first place finish (2:32:73) while Clara Wong (MGS) comes in a close second (2:33:56). (Photo 35 © Jonathan Kwong)
Annabel Teo (ACJC) in the A Girls 200m IM. (Photo 36 © Jonathan Kwong)
A competitor contemplates his race in the C Boys 50m Freestyle. (Photo 37 © Jonathan Kwong)
Psyching up before the B Boys 50m Freestyle. (Photo 38 © Jonathan Kwong)
Competitors all ready for the B Boys 50m Freestyle event. (Photo 39 © Jonathan Kwong)
B Boys 50m Freestyle – Jerome Teo (KSS) isn’t Omega after all. He comes in third place at 25.55s. (Photo 40 © Jonathan Kwong)
Valerie Koh (black raffles cap) touches in second to race winner Lee Ning (yellow cap) in the A Girls 50m Butterfly. The two RJC swimmers finished in 31.77s and 31.16s to bring back silver and gold for their college. (Photo 41 © Jonathan Kwong)
B Girls 50m Butterfly – Tao Li (SSP) takes first place, breaking her old record with a time of 27.38s. In second and third places are Chua Wan Yi (SSP) (time of 30.48s) and Rachel Yeo (RGS) (time of 30.94s) respectively. (Photo 42 © Jonathan Kwong)
The many supporters who turned up to support their school swimmers. (Photo 43 © Jonathan Kwong)
if you have pics and stories of sajc swimmers, we’ll post it. This is a reader-generated site. You send it, I’ll post it.
Les
i think sajc should be featured, for they for the first time came in 4th in the Adiv girls. especially since they upsetted the results of powerhouse NJC. SAJC is not known in the swimming arena and i think for them to come so far is commendable. and congratulations to the R family for sweeping many of the titles.
yeap! please help us. if not we will have major headache and then give up :
Thanks Alex. Have amended it.
If the names are wrong, please drop us a message as Alexander did. Better yet, if you have the ACTUAL NAMES of swimmers who have been wrongly identified, please let us know and that would be awesome.
Erm i respond to my picture, nice caption, but wrong identity. Thanks tho.
Hi Swimmer,
Thank you for your kind feedback. Apologies for the erroneous identification of the swimmers. I’d be grateful if you could follow up and provide the necessary corrections. I will contact you shortly regarding the corrections, and make the necessary amendments.
As Les said, swimmers’ identities are obscured by swimcaps and goggles and they look similarly nondescript. I’ve not been in touch with the school scene since graduating some time back, but on my part, I have made every effort to match the swimmers’ names according to the race schedule information as accurately as possible. This is not easy, albeit tedious, considering I covered some 28 events.
Notwithstanding that, we at Redsports look forward to keep bringing up-to-date reportage on the local school sports scene – so keep watching this space!
🙂
If you can provide the corrections by picture, that will be a more useful comment for everyone concerned.
One head with swim cap and goggles on looks uncannily like another to a volunteer photographer unfamiliar with the swimmers.
thanks.
les
editor
hi just a point to note, alot of the names of the swimmers are wrong, please check before writing their names. quite a few names dont correspond to the pictures!
Hi Coach,
Thanks alot for the kind words and encouragement. Look forward to being a regular here. Cheers, until we meet again for coffee (:
Jonk
Hi Jonathan!
This is a very good pictorial coverage I must say.
It required a great effort, keen eyes, concentration and organisation.
My Congratulations.
Red Coach Dick Yip