Quah Ting Wen, despite falling short of personal expectations, surpasses the Women's 50m Freestyle meet record in both the preliminary round and final en route to clinching gold in her event.
Only one meet record was felled by a local on the third and penultimate day of the Neo Garden 15th Singapore National Swimming Championships (SNSC) as Lionel Khoo set a new mark of 28.08 seconds in the men's 50-metre breaststroke heats. The 24-year-old's timing surpassed his own record of 28.46s set in 2017, and he went on to strike gold in the afternoon final touching the wall in 28.21s.
ACS(I) once again retained their stranglehold of all boys' divisional championships with a sixth straight grand slam of A, B and C titles, while RI and MGS retained their A and B girls' titles with the latter also dethroning defending champions and nearest rivals Raffles Girls' School in the girls' C Division.
Nine records were broken on the first of two days of Swimming finals, with RGS' Charla Tan's new record in the B Division Girls' 200m Backstroke being the second-fastest female timing in Singapore this year and also a medal-winning timing across all three Boys' categories.
Glen Lim can now add another national record to his name, after the 16-year old's outstanding swim in the Men's 400m Freestyle in the 14th Singapore National Swimming Championships.
The penultimate day of the 14th Singapore National Swimming Championships saw Pang Sheng Jun defend his 200m IM title as the meet's foreign contingent helped fell more of its meet records.
In Joseph Schooling's return to local competition, he took home the Men's 100m Butterfly in a jam-packed day 2 of the 14th Singapore National Swimming Championships.
The winners of the Men's 800m Freestyle and Women's 1500m Freestyle events were crowned on first day of the 14th Singapore National Swimming Championships 2018.
