The championship was also sanctioned as a qualifying meet for the SEA Age Group Swimming Championship 2013 in Brunei, 15th FINA World Championship 2013 in Barcelona and also the 2nd Summer Youth Olympic Games 2014 in Nanjing.
The competition witnessed many records being broken and a number of champions qualifying themselves into the regional and world championships.
IBSC swimmers selected to represent the state of Kuala Lumpur did excellently well especially the younger batch of swimmers, some of whom made their first debut in the national age group championship and yet performed with flying colours.
Siblings, Kimberly Ong, 12 and brother, David Ong, 9 both qualified for the said competition for the first time and so did Phoebe Law, 11, and Lee Jia Jing,10, all of whom collected handful of medals.
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| Lee Jia Jing (red cap) swam to gold in his 50m breaststroke (38.09s) and 100m breaststroke (1:19.97s) with David Ong (blue cap) finishing second in the same events under the 10 years old group. |
Kimberly Ong clinched gold in her 50m breaststroke with impressive time of 35.40s to dip below the SEA Age Group (SAG) qualifying mark of 36.28s under the Group 3 girls category.
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| Kimberly Ong made an impressive maiden entry into NAG by qualifying herself to SAG in the 50m breaststroke event |
Meanwhile, Tan Rou Ying, who has recently joined the national squad based in Bukit Jalil, has also done well in her 200m freestyle with a renewed PB of 2:12.59s to qualify for SAG 2013.
National swimmers Ian James Barr and Christina Loh also earned themselves a place in the same meet. Christina achieved a hat-trick, not only in her pet events of 50m and 100m breaststroke but also in 50m butterfly by clocking 33.20s, 1:12.10s and 29.46s respectively to book a place in SAG.
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| Christina is another contender for SAG 2013 |
Ian, on the other hand surfaced victoriously when he perfected his own open record to claim gold in 100m and 200m breaststroke with a better time of 1:06.31s and 2:20.96s respectively, both times of which met the SAG benchmarks.
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| Ian James Barr, an IM specialist, proved that his breaststroke is equally good to his added advantage |
Apart from SAG, Tan Gin Yu, who is based in Singapore Sports School, saw himself qualified further to attend the Youth Olympic Games 2014 when he touched second at 2:07.22s in the 200m butterfly event to claim the silver medal, behind Vernon Lee of Sarawak.
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| Tan Gin Yu, qualified for Youth Olympic Games 2014 in his 200m butterfly |
Other IBSC swimmers did profoundly well too in improving theirs PBs in leaps and bounds and shall prove to be future champions too.
Very well done indeed and congratulations to all the IBSC medallists below :
GROUP 4 GIRLS
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Qualified for
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Ashley
Ting (9)
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4x100m free relay
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4x100m medley relay
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Yeong
Zhen Yi (9)
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4x100m free relay
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4x100m medley relay
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Pun
Pei Jin (10)
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100m butterfly
4x100m free relay
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100m freestyle
200m IM
4x100m medley relay
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GROUP 3 GIRLS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Anjali
Lim (11)
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200m butterfly
4x100m medley relay
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Karla
Lim (11)
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200m backstroke
4x100m free relay
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Phoebe
Law (11)
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200m freestyle
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400m freestyle
800m freestyle
4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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Chong
Yong Qi (12)
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200m breaststroke
4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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Kimberly
Ong (12)
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*SAG
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50m breaststroke *
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200m breaststroke
100m breaststroke
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100m freestyle
50m freestyle
4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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GROUP 2 GIRLS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Tan
Rou Ying (13)
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*SAG
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200m freestyle *
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100m freestyle
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100m backstroke
50m butterfly*
50m backstroke
4x100m medley relay
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Amanda
Grace Nunis (14)
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4x100m medley relay
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Farra
Dyana Arffin (14)
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4x100m medley relay
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Lee
Chee Shian (14)
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4x100m medley relay
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GROUP 1 GIRLS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Christina
Loh (17)
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*SAG
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50m breaststroke*
100m breaststroke*
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50m butterfly*
4x100m medley relay
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Mak
Ai Sin (16)
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4x100m medley relay
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200m breaststroke
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Nur
Hanisah (15)
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4x100m medley relay
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Vanessa
Lee (15)
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4x100m medley relay
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OPEN GIRLS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Chan
Kah Yan (20)
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50m freestyle
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GROUP 4 BOYS
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Qualified for
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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David
Ong (9)
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4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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50m breaststroke
100m breaststroke
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Zachary
Lim (9)
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4x100m free relay
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Lee
Jia Jing (10)
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50m breaststroke
100m breaststroke
4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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200m IM
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100m freestyle
100m butterfly
200m freestyle
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GROUP 3 BOYS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Chew
Chee Ming (12)
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1500m freestyle
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200m backstroke
400m IM
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GROUP 2 BOYS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Goh
Yue Hong (13)
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4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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100m butterfly
100m backstroke
200m butterfly
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Wong
Jun Bin (13)
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1500m freestyle
4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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200m butterfly
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400m freestyle
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Nicholas
Soon (14)
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4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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200m breaststroke
100m breaststroke
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50m breaststroke
50m butterfly
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Stefan
Steiner (14)
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4x100m free relay
4x100m medley relay
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GROUP 1 BOYS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Tan
Gin Yu (16)
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*SAG
#YOG(B)
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400m IM (OR)
200m butterfly*#
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Ian
James Barr (17)
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*SAG
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200m breaststroke*(OR)
200m IM (OR)
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100m backstroke
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50m backstroke
100m breaststroke*(OR)
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OPEN BOYS
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Gold
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Silver
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Bronze
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Andrew
Loh (19)
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50m butterfly(OR)
100m backstroke
50m backstroke
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100m butterfly
50m breaststroke
50m butterfly
100m breaststroke
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Lee
Tzong Lit (19)
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50m butterfly(OR)
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50m backstroke
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*Qualified for SEA Age Group Swimming Championship 2013
#Qualified for Youth Olympic Games 2014 (B)
(OR) - NAG open record
The IBSC swimmers would not be able to achieve such great timings if not for the great effort put in by their coaches and the continuous support of the parents. Special mention goes to Coach He Tinglan of PRAKL and Coach Shazali Salleh, head coach of IBSC for the hard work in grooming the swimmers.
Congratulations again to all winners of NAG 2013 and all the best to those who are going to face stiffer competition in SEA Age Group Swimming Championship 2013 and the Youth Olympic Games 2014.
See full results of NAG 2013 here. View more photos on IBSC Gallery.
Also see Qualifing Times for :
37th SEA Age Group 2013
15th FINA World Championship 2013
2nd Summer Youth Olympic 2014
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