Singapore Sports School, Wednesday, April 27, 2011 — 16-year-old Lionel Khoo broke the National Under-17 100m Breaststroke record for the fifth time when he finished first in the B Division final at the 52nd National Inter-School Swimming championships.

Lionel, an Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) student, clocked a time of 1 minute 3.99 seconds to better his own mark of 1:04.06, registered at the Hong Kong Open last September. The time also broke his own championship record of 1:04.47 set last year.

He is now only the second Singaporean swimmer to go under the 1:04 mark in this event. National record holder Parker Lam was the first to do so in September 2009.

Progression of Men’s National Under-17 100m Breaststroke record

1:06.36 — Daniel Liew, National Age Group Championships, 4 March 1997
1:06.08 — Lionel Khoo, Asian Youth Games, 3 July 2009
1:05.09 — Lionel Khoo, Asian Youth Games, 4 July 2009
1:04.39 — Lionel Khoo, National Age Group Championships, 19 March 2010
1:04.39 — Lionel Khoo, National Swimming Championships, 10 June 2010
1:04.39 — Lionel Khoo, National Swimming Championships, 10 June 2010
1:04.06 — Lionel Khoo, Hong Kong Open Championships, 5 September 2010
1:03.99 — Lionel Khoo, National Schools Championships, 27 April 2011

B Division Boys Overall Results
1 Anglo Chinese Sch Independent 205 points
2 Singapore Sports School 126 points
3 Raffles Institution 93 points
4 Catholic High School 24 points
5 Anglo Chinese School Barker 19 points
6 Anglo Chinese School Intl 16 points
7 Outram Sec School 11 points
8 Bedok Green Sec School 10 points

B Division Girls Overall Results
1 Raffles Girls’ School 206.50 points
2 Methodist Girls’ School 122 points
3 Singapore Sports School 96.50 points
4 CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School 41 points
5 Nanyang Girls’ High School 20 points
6 Anglo Chinese Sch Intl 14 points
7 Dunman High School 11 points
8 CHIJ St Joseph’s Convent 8 points

See other B Division Swimming Finals