The quartet of Quah Ting Wen, Amanda Lim, Lynette Lim and Mylene Ong broke their own existing mark of 8:26.23s with a stupendous swim of 8:09.91s.
Try as they might, no Singaporean female, particularly Tao Li and Shana Lim, has ever swum the 50m Backstroke below 29.20 seconds. And frustratingly for the latter, it was no different on Day 4 of the World Swimming Championships.
Team Singapore rewrote their third national record in as many days at the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships when Parker Lam smashed his own 50m Breaststroke record with a time of 28.66s.
Lynette Lim reinforced her credentials as Singapore’s premier distance swimmer when she clocked a time of 16:41.49s in the grueling 1500m Freestyle to shatter her own national record by more than 20 seconds on Day 2 of the 13th FINA World Swimming Championships.
Swimming in the fifth heat alongside world-class swimmers like Briton Joanne Jackson and Coralie Balmy of France, Ting Wen clocked a time of 4:13.70s to break Lynette Lim’s 4:14.25s mark set at the Asian Youth Games earlier this month.
NBA Finals MVP Kobe Bryant of the Los Angeles Lakers flew into town to give 20 youth ballers the experience of a lifetime.
Singapore National Football Coach Radojko Avramovic has announced a squad of 22 players to take on English club Liverpool in a friendly at the National Stadium this Sunday, July 26, at 1900hrs.
Singapore's AYG contingent did not disappoint, and to keep up, our crew of writers and photographers brought to you, readers, 64 stories journalling our young athletes in action at the AYG.