B Div Swimming: Lim Ching Hwang of Sports School smashes records in freestyle wins
Sports School's new swim sensation Lim Ching Hwang outpaces fellow competitors with record breaking swims in the 100m and 200m freestyle finals.
Sports School's new swim sensation Lim Ching Hwang outpaces fellow competitors with record breaking swims in the 100m and 200m freestyle finals.
Singapore will be the venue for the first ever Southeast Asia Swimming Championships 2012 (SEA Swimming Championships 2012), the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) announced.
Swimmer Tao Li earned herself S$41,250 from the recent 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia.
Defending champion Tay Wei Ming beat Tran Minh Nhuan of Vietnam 2-1 (14-21, 21-17, 21-8) to win the BMSTU4 men's singles final at the 6th ASEAN Para Games. Team Singapore athletes bagged two fold, seven silver and two bronze medals from the day's action and the contingent remain in seventh position with a total of nine gold, 10 silver and nine bronze.
Singapore added three gold medals to their haul with another new record set in the pool today while our bowlers won a gold. Team Singapore is in seventh place in the overall medal tally with seven gold, three silver and seven bronze.
Swimming was the main contributor of medals at the 6th ASEAN Para games today. Collecting a total of six medals, our para-swimming team performed very well and lived up to expectations.
Swimmer Teresa Goh won Singapore's first gold medal at the 6th ASEAN Para Games. A second Singapore gold followed when bowler Mohamed Ismail B. Hussein took top spot in his TPB3 singles event with 990 pinfalls.
The multi-sports competition will be held once every two years and the 2012 edition will pit community teams against each other in 10 sports — Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Bowling, Dragon Boat, Football, Netball, Sepak Takraw, Swimming and Table Tennis.