China Press : SJK (C) Jalan Davidson hauled 17 gold in PRAKL swimming competition

Congratulations to the swimmers featured in today's China Press article especially Pun Pei Jin, an IBSC swimmer who achieved 9 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze in the recent PRAKL Swimming Championship 2013.

SJK (C) Jalan Davidson has a pool of talented swimmers

MSSM Swimming Championship 2013

The 2013 Malaysian School Sports Council (MSSM) Swimming Championship will see those eligible school swimmers from various states in Malaysia compete at the national level. This year's MSSM aquatic schedule is as follows :-


Date            : 25-29 March, 2013 (Mon - Fri)
Age Group  : U12, U15, U18
Venue         : Shah Alam, Selangor

See more details on MSSM Blog.

MSSWP Swimming Championship 2013

Kindly note that the MSSWP Swimming Championship 2013 will be held as follows :-

Date    : 26 - 27 February, 2013 ( Tues - Wed)
Time   : 8.00 am each day
Venue : Kompleks Renang Kuala Lumpur, Bandar Tun Razak


The MSSWP 2013 Program Book can be downloaded here.

TRAIN HARD!

2013 Chinese New Year break

Dear IBSC swimmers and parents,

In conjunction with Chinese New Year 2013 celebration, kindly be notified that the coaches will be taking a break from training as per schedule below.

	Coaches	Off Days	Resume
1	Coach Shazali and Coach Kamar	10 – 11 Feb, 2013	CNY Eve : 09-Feb, 2013 (Sat) - 9.00am only Post CNY : 12-Feb, 2013 (Tues) - 6.30pm 13-Feb, 2013 (Wed) - 7.00am & 6.30pm 14-Feb, 2013 (Thurs) - 6.30pm 15-Feb, 2013 (Fri) - 7.00am & 6.30pm. 16-Feb, 2013 (Sat) and thereafter – Normal hours
2	Coach Zoe and  Coach Mui Nyee	08 – 17 Feb, 2013	18-Feb, 2013 (Mon)
3	Coach Wai Loon	10 – 15 Feb, 2013	16-Feb, 2013 (Sat)

Have a good Chinese New Year break!


Regards,
Wong Kam Yuen
Asst. Secretary

Star Metro : Swimming association kicks off two-day junior swim meet

Star Metro
By Y.P. SIVAM
metrospt@thestar.com.my Photos by RICKY LAI

Ecstatic  : The winners with their medals and certificates

THE Selangor Amateur Swim-ming Association (SASA) has succeeded in developing new talent for the state.

This was visible during the two-day Selangor Junior age-group cham-pionships at the Darul Ehsan Aquatic Centre in Shah Alam recently.

In the past, the competition was for five age groups. However, SASA chose to organise the meet for only two categories — Group Four and Group Five — because of the high number of entries this year.

And the events for the Group One, Group Two, Group Three and Open categories were held separately during a three-day meet recently.

SASA vice-president Ong Jin Kooi, who is also the chief coach, said they had a hectic time last year when the three-day championships catered for all the age groups.

“We had almost 1,000 participants and the meet went on till late night. The technical officials were burdened and did not have much rest. So this year, we decided to divide the championships over two weekends. Almost 300 participants, aged eight to 10, took part,” he said.

“We are pleased with the response. The championships also served as a platform to identify potential swimmers for the National Age Group championships next month.”

In the boys’ category, Stingray Swimming Club’s Jayden Tan was voted as the overall champion in Group Five for winning five gold medals while Aow Yu Sheng of Sri KL Sharkies, with seven gold and one silver, was the overall champion in Group Four

Off they go : The start of an event at the championships

PADE Supershakz’s Lim Shun Qi was the overall champion in the girls’ Group Five. She won three gold and two silver. The overall champion in the girls’ Group Four was Royal Klang Club’s Angelina Chan, with five gold and two bronze.

Ong said the championships was meaningful as it had invited senior swimmers to serve as technical officials — as inspectors of turns, timekeepers and announcers.

“The idea was to provide them with organisational skills. There is a big shortage of technical officials. Being swimmers, they will understand the rules in swimming. We want them to continue serving as technical officials,” said Ong.

SASA recently initiated several programmes to further develop the sport. Besides organising the Selangor age-group championships, it also initiated the short course swimming championships last year.

Ong said they were pleased with the response for the short course championships and had included it in this year’s calendar.

“We will also be organising a long-distance championships in Decem-ber. There is a major shortage of swimmers for long-distance events.

“Most of the current juniors are concentrating on the 50m and 100m only. Our aim is to encourage them to take up the 200m, 400m, 800m and 1,500m,” he said.

“If we don’t organise these distances, then we may not have any representatives for the state and country in the future.”

Nestle Products sports marketing manager Ng Ping Loong said he was pleased with SASA’s active involvement in the promotion and development of swimming.

“There was a carnival-like atmosphere as parents came in full force to support their children. We are proud to be associated with SASA’s programmes.”

Overall champions

BOYS’

- Group Five: Jayden Tan (Stingray Swimming Club) — five gold.

- Group Four: Aow Yu Sheng (SriKL Sharkies) — seven gold and one silver

GIRLS’

- Group Five: Lim Shun Oi (PADE Supersharkz) — three gold and two silver

- Group Four: Angelina Chan (Royal Klang Club) — five gold and two bronze

- Group Four (state representatives): Christy Teh (Shah Alam Club Selangor) — six gold and two silver.

Happy Chinese New Year 2013, 新年快乐

IBSC wishes you a Happy and Prosperous 
Chinese New Year 2013

May the year of Water Snake brings abundant of prosperity, happiness and aquatic success to everyone.

恭喜發財

蛇年大吉

NST : The king of speed

NST Life and Times
5 February, 2013

Phelps qualifies for his first Olympics at the USA trials in 2000

THE achievement of swimmer Michael Phelps — the most decorated Olympian of all time by winning an unprecedented 22nd medal at last year’s Games — is celebrated by Speedo with a series of 22 iconic images charting his swimming history.

He won every Olympic gold medal wearing Speedo.

Speedo has supported Phelps from the age of 14, right through to his latest record breaking achievements in London.

During this time, he has secured 18 Olympic titles — twice the amount that any other athlete in any other sport has won — together with an unparalleled 27 World Championship Gold medals.

Among these triumphs were the eight Gold medals won in Beijing in 2008, a feat, which earned the Baltimore native a US$1 million (RM3.1 million) bonus from Speedo.

Phelps announced that the money would be used to establish the Michael Phelps Foundation, which today helps to grow the sport of swimming among children and young people, while promoting the benefits of an active, and healthy lifestyle.

Speedo president David Robinson says Speedo is passionate about the sport of swimming and about inspiring people to swim.

“Michael’s achievements will, undoubtedly, motivate the next generation of champions to take to the pool and aim to emulate their hero; the most accomplished swimmer of all time.”





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IBSC topped record breaking in PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championship 2013

The 3-day event of PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championship 2013, held on 1- 3 February 2013, has been grilling as the hot weather had not been sympathetic towards swimmers nor the parents. Most pitiful are the officials on duty as they had to endure the scorching sun to make sure they discharged their responsibilities properly.

On the second day of the meet, the traffic condition was made worse as the entrance to the pool was blocked due to the FT Day celebration at the stadium next door. But not all was bad, as the audience at the pool were entertained by the para-gliders and display of colourful fireworks during the parade. A sense of festivity suddenly filled the air in the midst of the stiff competition.

A rare skyline as viewed from the swimming pool

Despite all these challenging factors, the meet went on smoothly.

This year's championship recorded the highest number of participants with 524 swimmers from 11 affiliated clubs and schools around Kuala Lumpur.

Swimmers who can achieve the qualifying times set by PRAKL will be chosen to represent Team Kuala Lumpur in the National Age Group Swimming Championship in April 2013.

Group 1 boys' perfect dive into the pool

IBSC emerged as the victorious champion again with collection of 87 golds, 68 silvers and 64 bronze. It also has the most number of meet records achieved with 11 new times being created out of a total of 23 records.

The 2013 PRAKL new records are tabulated below.

Group	Event	Name of Swimmer	Affiliate	Old Record	2013 New Record
1 Boys	200 Butterfly	Wong Jun Keat	IBSC	2:11.49 (2010)	2:11.14
1 Girls	400 IM	Mak Ai Sin	IBSC	5:22.80 (2012)	5:22.45
	200 Butterfly	Mak Ai Sin	IBSC	2:30.69 (1997)	2:28.39
2 Boys	200 Breast	Nicholas Soon	IBSC	2:33.70 (1996)	2:29.93
	50 Breast	Nicholas Soon	IBSC	0:31.99 (2005)	0:31.50
	100 Breast	Nicholas Soon	IBSC	1:10.23 (1996)	1:09.11
2 Girls	50 Back	Tan Rou Ying	SAB	0:33.55 (2007)	0:32.73
	400 IM	Tan Rou Ying	SAB	5:28.13 (2007)	5:24.62
	50 Freestyle	Tan Rou Ying	SAB	0:28.91 (2007)	0:28.68
3 Girls	200 Breast	Kimberly Ong	IBSC	2:50.73 (1995)	2:50.53
	50 Breast	Kimberly Ong	IBSC	0:37.90 (2008)	0:36.60
	50 Freestyle	Tan Rou Ying (2012) /Kimberly Ong	IBSC	0:28.76 (2012)	0:28.76 *
4 Boys	100 Butterfly	Steve Kiew	SJD	1:16.72 (2010)	1:15.85
	200 IM	Steve Kiew	SJD	2:47.86 (2012)	2:40.78
	100 Back	Steve Kiew	SJD	1:14.87 (1999)	1:13.45
	50 Breast	Lee Jia Jing	IBSC	0:39.40 (2010)	0:39.05
	100 Freestyle	Steve Kiew	SJD	1:09.24 (2012)	1:08.11
	200 Freestyle	Steve Kiew	SJD	2:27.77 (2012)	2:24.96
	50 Butterfly	Steve Kiew	SJD	0:34.14 (2010)	0:34.08
	100 Breast	Lee Jia Jing	IBSC	1:25.54 (2009)	1:21.07
5 Boys	50 Freestyle	Jayden Tan Khai Xin	KLSC	0:35.11 (2005)	0:33.82

* shared record time


Congratulations to the following medallists of IBSC for achieving such awesome performances :

Mak Ai Sin made a clean sweep of 15 gold medals in all events

Group 1 Boys
Wong Jun Keat (7G/1B)
Keith Lim (6G/4S/2B)
Goh Yue Shen (1B)
Amir Yussuf Bin Kamal (1B)
Ameer Tan (1B)

Group 1 Girls
Mak Ai Sin (15G)
Vanessa Lee Yiat Mon (2S/2B)
Nur Iman Nabillah (1S/4B)
Chanel Yim (1S/1B)
Peh Jia Min (1S/1B)
Fatin Natasya (1B)


Group 2 Boys
Nicholas Soon (9G)

Nicholas Soon,14, broke all the 3 breaststroke records

Goh Yue Hong (6G/5S)
Tan Ei Siang (4S/6B)
Desmond Ng (3S/2B)
Goh Wai Hou (1S/2B)
Adam Afif (3B)
Alif Afifi (1B)

Group 2 Girls
Yap Li Wen (3G/2B)
Teh Lilian (2S/2B)


Group 3 Boys
Chew Chee Ming (12G/2S/1B)
Sebastian Soon (3G/4S/1B)
Iqmal Muqhis (2S)
Brandy Chew (1S/3B)

Kimberly Ong performed at top notch by creating 3 meet records

Yeong Yik San (1S/2B)
Rohan Lee (1S/1B)
Low Ken Ji (1B)
William Honderich (1B)


Group 3 Girls
Kimberly Ong (9G/2S/1B)
Phoebe Law (3G/4S/3B)
Chong Yong Qi (1G/6S/4B)


Group 4 Boys
Lee Jia Jing (2G/6S/2B)
Zachary Lim (2S/3B)
David Ong (2S/2B)

Lee Jia Jing, 10, has 2 records under his belt

Group 4 Girls
Ashley Ting (2S/3B)
Yeong Zhen Yi (1B)


Group 5 Boys
Whisky Chew (1G/2S)


Group 5 Girls
Ng Zi Syuen (1S/2B)








IBSC Relay Teams from various age group also did the club proud by achieving :

Gold

Group 1 Girls 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Group 2 Boys 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Group 3 Girls 4x100m Freestyle Relay

Group 3 Boys 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Group 4 Boys 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Group 4 Boys 4x50m Medley Relay
Group 1 Boys 4x100m Medley Relay
Group 1 Girls 4x100m Medley Relay
Group 2 Boys 4x100m Medley Relay
Group 3 Girls 4x100m Medley Relay

Silver 
Group 5 Boys 4x50m Freestyle Relay
Group 5 Girls 4x50m Freestyle Relay
Group 1 Boys 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Group 4 Girls 4x100m Freestyle Relay
Group 5 Girls 4x50m Medley Relay

Bronze
Group 4 Girls 4x50m Medley Relay


The full results of PRAKL 2013 can be downloaded here.


IBSC would like to extend its appreciation to the Team Manager, chaperones and parents who have helped out one way or another in the meet. Thanks also to the organising committee and officials for all the hard work in making the meet a success.

Goh Yue Hong leading in his backstroke, next to Tan Ei Siang

Chew Chee Meng amassed 12 golds

Group 3 girls' start

Wong Jun Keat broke the 200 fly record

Keith Lim 

Group 2 boys

More photos can be viewed from our IBSC Gallery.