Sebastian, Keith & Dhuha contributed gold in national age group 2018

Congratulations to the medalists of the recent National Age Group meet which has just concluded last weekend at the National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sports City, Bukit Jalil from 15-18 March, 2018.

The 54th Malaysia Invitation Age Group Swimming Championships 2018 was participated by a total of 690 swimmers from all the states in Malaysia (except Kelantan) and also by Hong Kong, Macau, Indonesia, India, Madagascar, Cook Islands, Thailand and Sri Lanka. The largest foreign team was Sri Lanka with 100 swimmers.

In our local squad, IBSC swimmers formed the biggest pool of KL athletes where 40 of our swimmers had the chance to join the Kuala Lumpur Swim Team after the qualifying round at the PRAKL Age Group meet in Jan 2018.

Team KL

Sebastian Soon with his impressive 200IM event where he did a PB of 2:09.21

In the Open Results, the IBSC swimmers who contributed medals to the team were :

Sebastian Soon  (16) Male 15-17
2 GOLD - 400 IM 4:37.02, 1500 Free 16:23.37
2 SILVER - 200 IM 2:09.21, 200 Fly 2:06.24
1 BRONZE - 100 Fly 57.83

Keith Lim, Kit Sern (20) Male 18 & Over 
1 GOLD - 50Free 23.75
2 SILVER - 100 Free 50.84, 50 Fly 25.20
1 BRONZE - 200Free 1:54.14

Muhammad Dhuha, Bin Zulkifry (9) Male 10 & Under
1 GOLD -  50Fly 33.67 
3 SILVER - 200 IM 2:47.23, 100 Back 1:19.86 , 200 Free 2:30.96
3 BRONZE - 100 Free 1:09.48, 100 Fly 1:16.57, 50 Free 31.33

Steve Khiew, Hoe Yean (15) Male 15-17
3 SILVER - 200 Back 2:07.43, 100 Back 1:00.15, 200 Free 1:56.09

Whisky Chew, . (12) Male 11-12
2 SILVER - 400 Free 4:42.59, 200 Fly 2:29.85

Muhd Farhan Andi, Maroef (14) Male 13-14
1 SILVER - 100 Fly 1:00.64

Wong, Jun Bin (18) Male 18 & Over
2 BRONZE - 400 Free 4:07.36, 1500 Free 16:36.10

Sharizan B.Shazali (14) Male 13-14
1 BRONZE - 50 Back 28.77

Wesley Kam, Zhuo Wei (13) Male 13-14
1 BRONZE - 200 Breast 2:35.14


Meanwhile, with stiff competition from Hong Kong, Indonesia and Selangor, the KL relay teams  won the following team events :

Boys 10 & Under 
GOLD - 4x50 LC Meter Medley Grp 4 Relay 2:26.06 1) Low Wenxi 10 2) Harith Miqael Hisyam 10 3) Muhammad Dhuha 9 4) Sean Zecha Simmons 10
BRONZE - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 4 Relay 4:53.63 (1) Sean Zecha Simmons 10 2) Zizou Looi 9 3) Wenxi Low 10 4) Muhammad Dhuha 9

Boys 13-14 
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Medley Grp 2 Relay 4:09.16 1) . Sharizan B.Shazali 14 2) David Ong 14 3) *Muhd Farhan Andi 14 4) Zachary Lim 14

BRONZE - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 2 Relay 3:45.63 1) Sharizan B.Shazali 14 2) *Muhd Farhan Andi 14 3) Darren Lew 13 4) Zachary Lim 14

Boys 15-17 
GOLD - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 1 Relay 3:34.32 1) Steve Khiew 15 2) . Iqmal Muqhis Faizal 16 3) *. Falk Meier 16 4) Ken Ji Low 16
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Medley Grp 1 Relay 3:57.86 1) Steve Khiew 15 2) Ng Kai Wen 16 3) Koh Teck Chen 15 4) Ken Ji Low 16

Boys 18 & Over 
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Open Relay 3:36.19 1) Keith Lim 20 2) . Nicholas Soon 19 3) Kevin Lim 18 4) Jun Bin Wong 18
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Medley Open Relay 4:04.76 1) Wong Jun Bin 18 2) . Adam Afif B.Faizal 18 3) Kevin Lim 18 4) Chan Jun Jian 18

Girls 11-12 
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 3 Relay 4:23.38 1) Li Wei Law 12 2) Yen Sze Ng 12 3) Xiao Rou Liew 11 4) *Misa Okuzuno 11
SILVER - 4x100 LC Meter Medley Grp 3 Relay 4:49.04 1) *. Alma Dahl 12 2) *Misa Okuzuno 11 3)  Ilaria Sophia Sulong 12 4) Law Li Wei 12

Girls 13-14 
BRONZE - 4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 2 Relay 4:13.11 1) Xin Rui Ashley Ting 14 2) *Yumi Okuzono 14 3) Georgene Wee 14 4) * Angelina Emby 13
BRONZE -13-14 4x100 LC Meter Medley Grp 2 Relay 4:41.35 1) *Gioia Migliarina 13 2) Ng Zi Syuen 13 3) *Yumi Okuzono 14 4) * Angelina Emby 13

Girls 15-17  
BRONZE -4x100 LC Meter Freestyle Grp 1 Relay 4:08.24 1) Nurlatifa Zahra 17 2) Evon Chan 16 3) Karla Lim 16 4) *Rebecca Wood 15
BRONZE -  4x100 LC Meter Medley Grp 1 Relay 4:42.94 1) Karla Lim 16 2) Evon Chan 16 3)  Jasmine Liew 16 4) Nurlatifa Zahra 17


During the championship, ASUM also launched the inaugural Malaysians All Stars program for junior swimmers who excelled in swimming during the national age group. They were awarded an ALL Star swim cap and a certificate in recognition of their hard work and to boost their continuous training. The awards were given out by national Head Coach, Mr Paul Birmingham during a presentation ceremony on the third day of the meet.

Coach Birmingham giving out the certificates to KL swimmers

Muhd Dhuha getting a hand shake from the national coach with the backdrop featuring him

IBSC swimmers who received the ALL Star award were :

Male | Brandy Chew, Iqmal Muqhis Faizal, Sebastian Soon, Steve Khiew, Sharizan B.Shazali, Whisky Chew, Harith Miqael Hisyam, Harry Chong, Jackson Khiew, Low Ken Ji, Low Wenxi, Muhammad Dhuha, Ng K-Yang, Ng Kai Wen, Tobin Sia, Wesley Kam, Zachary Lim

Female | Ashley Ting, Nurlatifa Zahra, Chan Evon, Clarabelle Liew, Jasmine Liew, Law Li Wei, Ng Zi Syuen

Congratulations to all!


The open and close full results can be downloaded here.

Coach Zhang (far left) with his PRAKLsquad swimmers

Group 4 boys medley relay swimmers, from left, Sean Zecha, Zizou Looi , Low Wenxi Low  and  Muhd  Dhuha 

KL swimmer credit to MILO photographer 

Li Wei returned from Dubai to swim the MIAG

See MIAG 2018 photos, courtesy of Mr CK Wong.