IBSC remains unbeatable in President Cup 2014

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IBSC remains supreme as the Champion Club in the 33rd National Inter-Club Swimming Championship for the President Cup 2014 as it ends today with a bang, when both the boys and girls relay swimmers emerged as the winning relay teams.

Well done Team IBSC!

Team IBSC as the Champions Club in President Cup 2014 with top score of 1219.5

Team IBSC with biggest turnout in participation this year with 131 swimmers

... more report to follow later.

President Cup 2014 - Results

See latest results for President Cup 2014 here.

Aquatic Calendar 2015

The Aquatic Calendar for 2015 has just been issued by ASUM.

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New Swim Apps on iPhone - SwimSync

SwimSync is free for download into your iPhone

Hi there,

Parents and swimmers may wish to know that there's a new iPhone app called 'swimsync' developed very recently in Australia which can be used for storing your swim results. Here, we're not talking about one swimmer's results but you can record PBs of multiple swimmers, either that of your own club members, your few swimming children, peers or even your competitors for comparison! There's no limit on the number of swimmers you can key in.

Swimsync enables users to store swim times, graph results, save times directly from the in-built stopwatch and see all statistics from each swim including lap splits. Swimmers will be able to track their progress and enjoy watching their times improve. They can even view all their personal best times in one screen - no more searching for where and when the times were swum!

Swimsync saves all swim times from pool or open water races. You can chart swimmers’ progress, instantly view all personal best times, set goals, compare swimmers and organize swim meets.

Download for free now on your iPhone at https://itunes.apple.com/au/app/swimsync/id936533489?mt=8

There is also a ad-free version available for download for only US$0.99 at the moment.

See http://www.swimsync.com.au/

So, down wait. Try it out!

Best Regards,
IBSC Swim Committee

IBSC Team Briefing for President Cup 2014

Dear IBSC members,

Kindly be informed that a team briefing for IBSC swimmers on the 33rd National Inter-Club Swimming Championship 2014 for the President Cup will be held as follows :-

Date : 25 November, 2014 (Tuesday)
Time : 8:30 pm (after training)
Venue : Bandar Tun Razak Swimming Pool

All registered participants are encouraged to attend the briefing especially the junior swimmers who are entering the swim competition for the first time.

The following will be distributed during the briefing :
a) Attire package consisting of backpacks, T-shirts, gym shorts & swim cap;
b) School Leave Letters for those needing them.

Your attendance is appreciated.

Thank you.

Regards,
Nancy Sim
Hon. Secretary cum Team Manager

p/s Please see briefing notes here.

Star Community : Comeback kid makes big splash

BY DASHEER NOH

TWENTY-FOUR records were re-written at the 11th Kedah International Invitational Swimming Championships held at the Gunung Keriang Aquatic Centre near Alor Setar.

The girls 13-14 years age group lining up at the starting point in the 50m freestyle event at the Gunung Keriang Aquatic complex near Alor Setqr during the 11th Kedah Annual international Invitational meet.

The number of records created, however, fell short of last year’s total of 31 although the number of participants this year outnumbered the previous year’s figure.

A total of 509 participants from 21 teams including 16 swimmers from Madras, India, took part in the championships this time whereas there were 430 participants from 15 teams including a team from Madras, last year.

Clement David Leong, 26, from Perak, who had laid off competitive swimming for about two years, made a successful comeback to bag four gold medals at the meet which was held over two days recently.

He was the oldest swimmer to win four events at the meet, including record-breaking performances in the 50m backstroke and 100m breaststroke categories.

He clocked a new time of 28.60s in the 50m backstroke to erase the old record of 28.96s by Dickson Chin from Penang Sports Club last year, and 1:07.72s in the 100m breaststroke to erase the 100m breaststroke record of 1:09.36s held by Athijade Moravan (Barracuda Aquatic Club Alor Setar) since 2011.

He also won gold medals in the 50m butterfly and the 50m freestyle. He also anchored the Perak team to win a bronze medal in the 4x100m freestyle relay.

The Madras Swimming Club, who had won six gold, eight silver and eight bronze medals last year, failed to ignite and went home without a gold medal this time.

The event was organised by the Kedah Amateur Swimming Association.

Organising secretary K. Ravindran rated this year’s event as the best ever since the inaugural meet 10 years ago.

“The huge response from teams who come from as far as Madras, Johor, Malacca, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Negri Sembilan made the meet a memorable one apart from regular participants from Perak, Penang and Kedah,” he said.

There were five age groups including two open categories for both boys and girls.

Penang Sports Club topped the leaderboard by winning 29 gold, 16 silver and 10 bronze medals while Ikan Bilis Swimming Club from Kuala Lumpur took second place with 21 gold, nine silver and 16 bronze medals.

The others finished in the following order: Bukit Banang GC Johor 10-14-13, Penang Chinese Swimming Club 10-10-11, Kelab Renang MSSC 7-15-8, Perak Amateur Swimming Association 7-10-10, Royal Selangor GC 4-1-7, Pirates Swimming Club 2-6-2, Rakan Akuatik Remaja Malacca 2-1-4, Pusat Akuatik Darul Ehsan 1-6-4, Trident Swimming Club 1-5-7, Madras Swimming Club 0-7-4, Sungai Petani Aquatic Club 0-1-0, Kinta Swimming Club 0-0-2 and Kingfisher Swimming club 0-0-1.

The records at the meet are as follows (former records in brackets):

Boys:
Open: 200m breaststroke: Ng Yi Hao 3:30.29s (2:32.88s).

15 years & over: 50m backstroke: Clement David Leong 28.60s (28.96s), 100m backstroke: Hollymax Bell 1:02.57s (1:06.62s), 100m breaststroke: Clement David Leong 1:07.72s (1:09.36s).

13-14 years: 50m breaststroke: Ng Yi Hao 31.62s (31.97s), 100m breaststroke: Ng Yi Hao 1:08.48s (1:11.36s), 100m freestyle: Dylan Wong Xuan Kai 56.15s (56.334s).

11-12 years: 50m breaststroke: Toan Matsumoto 34.16s (34.51s).

9-10 years: 50m backstroke: Koay Wern Rui 36.58s (36.61s), 100m backstroke: Koay Wern Rui 1:17.58s (1;18.22S), 50m butterfly: Terence Lim Tzun Chen 33.36s (34.00s), 100m butterfly: Chew Kee En 1:13.90s (1:15.20s), 100m breaststroke: Hector Chong Kin Yee 1:24.88s (1:27.66s), 100m freestyle: Koay Wern Rui 1:06,54s (1:07.63s).

Girls:
13 years & over: 100m freestyle relay: Penang Swimming Club 4:27.92s (4:36.55s).

13-14 years: 50m freestyle: Tan Yilin Elynn 27.66s (28.69s), 100m freestyle: Tan Yilin Elynn 1:00.58s (1:02.44s).

9-10 years: 50m freestyle: Ashley Chew 31.02s (31.19s), 100m freestyle: Yeong Zhen Yi 1:07.56s (1:08.75s), 50m backstroke: Ashley Chew 36.10s (37.06s), 100m backstroke: Yeong Zhen Yi 1:20.74s (1:21.62s), 100m butterfly: Yeong Zhen Yi 1:17.06s (1:17.86s).

Eight years & under: 50m freestyle: Jesselyn Lim Li Xin 34.62s (36.07s), 50m back stroke: Jesselyn Lim Lin Xin 42.55s (42.81s).

Midget team made an impressive outing to Gunung Keriang, Kedah

IBSC had never sent any swim team to the Kedah International Swimming Meet even though in the past, few individual swimmers have participated in the meet under their school banners.

This year in 2014, we were pleasantly surprised with the encouraging response from 20 swimmers and decided to form a team under IBSC. Out of the total of 20 swimmers, 6 were very young beginners while the rest have some fair bit of swim experience. Some key swimmers were expected to deliver some medals to the club.

As the team is small, no coaches accompanied the squad.  Instead 2 senior swimmers, Desmond Ng and Yap Li Wen, were appointed as swim captains to lead the warm-up sessions and guide the boys and girls accordingly. This provided an opportunity to groom these seniors as leaders as well as to impart some responsibilities to them during the swim meet.

Some of the swimmers flew up North with their parents while others prefer to drive to enjoy the greeneries. The self-driving gave the family the opportunity to treat the outing as a holiday cum swim meet trip. Along the way, they also had the opportunity to savour  breakfast and lunches at popular stops before arriving at the destination.

We arrived at Fuller Hotel, Alor Star on the eve of competition at various hours from afternoon till late at night. Dinner arrangement was on our own as arrival time was uncertain and the availability of numerous eateries near the hotel vicinity. The group was small and fragmented, hence we made our own arrangement for breakfast the next day. Most had Dim Sum which was a good 2 minutes walk, thereafter we made our way to the pool at 6.45am.

The Gunung Keriang Aquatic is unique as the venue has no address and it is located next to Guning Keriang surrounded by paddy fields. The famous landmarks within its vicinity are the Gunung Keriang and Paddy Museum. The journey from the hotel takes about 20 minutes but it can take much longer if you make a wrong turn!!!!

Gunung Keriang stadium fenced with beautiful natural surroundings and green paddy fields

This year’s meet in Kedah attracted 21 swim teams with a record of 509 swimmers. The meet was organised by the Persatuan Amatur Renang Kedah on 1-2 November, 2014. Most of the famous Penang swim clubs participated together with other clubs from Perak, Selangor, Kuala Lumpur, Negeri Sembilan, Malacca, Johor as well as one foreign team from India (Madras Swimming Team).

On day 1, we had a decent start when Anson Chew delivered a bronze in the opening event of 200m Open Boys Freestyle and followed with string of medals scooped by Li Wen, Yi Xuan, Zachary, Zhen Yi, Ken Ji and Desmond. Penang Swimming Club was always matching us in the medal haul and by the end of day 1 led all the other teams with their stronger contingent.

We had a promising start on the 2nd day with 4 gold medals (Desmond, Li Wen, Zhen Yi and Ken Ji) out of the first 5 events. By end of 2nd day, we managed to collect 13 gold summing up a total of 21 gold, 9 silver and 16 bronze for the Kedah outing. IBSC swimmers renewed some meet records and they were broken by Desmond (50m & 200m breast) and Zhen Yi (100m free & fly).  Overall it is a splendid achievement by IBSC with only a midget team.

IBSC Swimmer	Meet Records	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Yeong Zhen Yi	3	6	2
Low Ken Ji		6	1	1
Yap Li Wen		4	1	2
Desmond Ng	3	3	2	3
Zachary Lim		1	2	4
Ng Yi Xuan		1	1	1
Anson Chew				2
Asley Chow				1
Girls Relay Team : Alia Salleh, Liew Shue Yuen, Nuraina Naziha, Yap Li Wen				2
TOTAL	6	21	9	16

Penang Swimming Club with a total of 46 of their top swimmers emerged as the overall champion followed by IBSC and Chinese Swimming Club.

See Full Results here.

The support and cooperation rendered by parents were simply superb. Appreciation goes to parents who chipped into buying breakfast, snacks, bananas and assisting whatever way they could during this away meet.

Thank you for the support and congrats to the swimmers. We may return with a more significant contingent in 2015.

Reported by,
Vincent Low, Team Manager

See more photos at IBSC Gallery

Ken Ji with his golden haul of 6 gold

Zhen Yi's medal and souvenirs collection to be cherished

* photos courtesy of IBSC parents

IBSC Year End Party 2014

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Yeong Zhen Yi, a promising athlete in the making

Yeong Zhen Yi is set to be a strong iron girl in the future as she has been championing many swimming and triathlon races since last year at a tender age of 9.

IBSC is fortunate to have Zhen Yi contributing top points to the club. So far, she has been the Overall Best Girl not only in swimming but also in her running and tri competitions. You will be amazed to see her list of achievements.

Zhen Yi, lanky for her age, joined IBSC mid of 2012 and has been training under Coach Zoe for merely 3 months before she was hand-picked by PRAKL former coach, Coach He Tinglan to train under the KL Junior Squad. Under her tutelage, she picked up her swimming skill pretty fast and quickly collected a bronze in 100m breaststroke in 2013 PRAKL Age Group  Swimming Championship.

Even though winning many open water races, Zhen Yi has eerie feelings on the possibility of being beaten by jelly fish. So she prefers swimming in the calm pool instead.  

Recently, Zhen Yi also received an Excellence Award in Aquatic awarded by the Education Department in the District of Hulu Langat.

Yi-Yi, as fondly called by her father, loves savouring spaghetti and she adores singing during her free time. Her favourite singer is Taylor Swift. A promising athlete, Zhen Yi hopes to be able to excel further to participate in Olympic swimming one day.

IBSC wishes her all the best!

Zhen Yi with proud father Mr TK Yeong during the
3rd Selangor ARENA Short Course presentation

Bio-Data 

Name : Yeong Zhen Yi

Date of Birth : 10 February, 2003

Age : 11 years old

Zodiac Sign : Aquarius

School : SJK(C) Batu Sebelas Cheras

IBSC Member since : July 2012

Core stroke : Breaststroke

Hobby : Singing

Favourite Food : Spaghetti

Ambition : Olympic swimmer

Swimming Achievements :

3rd Selangor Arena Short Course Sprint Swimming Championship 2014 (Best Girl for U10 Girls)

MSSS Swimming Championship 2014 (Best Girl for 11-12 years Girls)

Bilathon/Triathlon Achievements :

Singapore Aquathlon 2014 (Champion for U12 Girls)

DSA Blue Fantasy Carnival/Biathlon 2013 (Champion for U10 Girls)

Port Dickson International Triathlon 2013 (Champion for Kids Triathlon U10 Girls)

Australia International School Triathlon 2013 (Champion for U12 Girls)

NEXUS International School Triathlon 2013 (Champion for U12 Girls)

The Alice Smith School Triathlon 2013 (Champion for U10 Girls)

Port Dickson International Triathlon 2012 (Champion for Kids Triathlon U9 Girls)

Athletic Achievements :

Giant Kids Run 2014 (Champion for Girls 9-10 years)

Giant Kids Run 2013 (Champion for Girls 9-10 years)

Read related press article on Zhen Yi :

The Star | 13 March 2014| Zhen Yi swims her way to 10 gold medals in aquatic championships

Leading girl in Giant Kids Run

Zhen Yi championing the  Nexus Trilathon 

Zhen Yi dashing into the sea during Singapore Aquathlon in Sept 2014

Zhen Yi won the overall champion for U12 girls