The previous age group mark was held by Brilliant Chua when he clocked a time of 2:27.84 at the 36th South-east Asian Age Group Swimming Championships. Dynes smashed the record by 0.84 seconds, and also took a massive three seconds off his 2:30.17 PB.
Tan Jing-E of Methodist Girls' School set a new meet record of 2:23.17. Daphne Tan of Raffles Girls’ School was second with 2:29.34, while Genevieve Lye of MGS came in third in 2:30.96.
Daphne Tan and Elizabeth Lee, both of Raffles Girls School, made up the rest of the podium.
Madeline Quek of RI came in second in a time of 32.76 seconds, while Nicole Ong clinched bronze in a time of 34.27 seconds.
Francis Fong of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) set a new meet record of 27.68 seconds during the heats. He clocked 27.81s in the final to claim gold.
Gerald Chua of Anglo-Chinese Junior College came in over 17 seconds after Zheng Wen to clinch silver, while Joshua Koh of Raffles Institution finished third in 2:27.59.
Singapore Sports School’s Ryan Wee came in five seconds later to clinch second in a new personal best of 2:13.97, while Raffles Institution’s Jerome Sunil Kwang was third with 2:16.77.
Song Ai Vee of Raffles Institution and Annis Loy of Temasek Junior College shared second place. Both swimmers finished with identical timings of 28.36 seconds.
