IBSC swimmers swam impressively to qualify into MIAG 2018 from PRAKL Age Group 2018

The MILO/PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championship 2018 has just concluded yesterday over a 3-day race on 26th - 28th January, 2018 at Kompleks Renang Kuala Lumpur.

Congratulations to IBSC swimmers achieving great results and enormous PBs in the KL Age Group annual meet. IBSC retained its top position by hauling 67 gold, 53 silver and 44 bronze. IBSC also has the biggest representation of swimmers who managed to swim to merit times to qualify into MIAG 2018, the national age group due to be held in March 2018. Well done!



Special shout out to our swimmers who broke the PRAKL meet records with impressive new times. They are :

Sebastian Soon - Male - Age: 16 

#101 Boys 11&O 1500 Free Group Open ,  16:38.85 (Old Meet Rec: 16:49.29)

#125 Boys 15-17 200 IM Group 1, 2:11.32 (Old Meet Rec: 2:14.31)
#325 Boys 15-17 400 IM Group 1, 4:39.15 (Old Meet Rec: 4:41.59)
#343 Boys 15-17 200 Fly Group 1, 2:08.05 (Old Meet Rec: 2:09.39)

Adam Afif Bin Faizal - Male, 18
#220 Boys 18&O 50 Breast Group Open, 30.46 (Old Meet Rec: 31.13)
#242 Boys 18&O 200 Breast Group Open, 2:33.01 (Old Meet Rec: 2:56.51)
#331 Boys 18&O 100 Breast Group Open, 1:08.95 (Old Meet Rec: 1:10.10)

Steve Khiew, Hoe Yean - Male - Age: 15
#105 Boys 15-17 200 Back Group 1, 2:06.93 (Old Meet Rec: 2:14.31)
#204 Boys 15-17 100 Back Group 1, 1:00.01 (Old Meet Rec: 1:02.05)

Chan Evon - Female, 16
#223 Girls 15-17 50 Breast Group 1, 36.10 (Old Meet Rec: 36.19)

Sebastian Soon broke 4 meet records and amassed 4 gold, 2 silver and 1 bronze

Steve Khiew broke 2 records and collected 5 gold and 3 silver

Evon Chan renewed a 50m breaststroke record and won 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze

Adam Afif, raced with amazing results, 3 gold in 3 breaststroke events he participated and smashed 3 new records.

IBSC Exco wishes to thank the parents who have volunteered as Team Managers, chaperones, photographer and all in the support team who has helped in the meet. BIG thanks and appreciation to all our dedicated coaches too for their effort in bringing another set of splendid results and PBs to the swimmers.

See Full Results here.

#PRAKL2018

Photos courtesy of MR CK Wong

Invite to PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championship 2018

Dear All,

The invite and info on PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championship 2017 is as below :

Date                                :   26th -28th January, 2018 (Fri - Sun)
Venue                             :    Kuala Lumpur Swimming Complex,
                                             Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur
Organizer                        :    Kuala Lumpur Amateur Swimming Association  (KLASA)
Rules                               :    FINA Rules applies
Date of Age Reckoning  :    1st January, 2018
Entry Closing Date         :    5th January, 2018
Team Manager Meeting :    25th January, 2019 at 4:30 p.m.
Entries                             :   No limit to the number of swimmers or events
Qualifying Meet to          :   Malaysia Invitational Age Group Swimming Championship 2018

Please download invite and documents here.

Entry form for IBSC swimmers is due on or before  27 December, 2017.  In order to register for the competition, IBSC Entry Form must be accompanied by 2018 Membership Renewal Form.

Also note that the above is a qualifying meet to the Malaysia Invitational Age Group Swimming Championship 2018.

The Qualifying Times and Order of Event are as below :

Regards,
IBSC Swim Committee

KL Age Group Swimming 2017 unveiled exponential results

The first meet of the year and the much awaited KL Age Group Swimming Championship 2017 has come and gone just like the erratic weather intertwined with hot blazing sun and stormy downpour during the race at Kompleks Renang Kuala Lumpur, Cheras.

Held for 3 days from 13-15 January, 2017, the qualifying meet was participated by a record of 860 swimmers from 16 clubs and schools affiliated to Persatuan Renang Amatur Kuala Lumpur, the organiser. Qualifiers will be eligible to participate in the forthcoming National Age Group Swimming Championship 2017 in Melaka in March 2017.

IBSC alone has registered the highest number of swimmers (189) despite many members were swimming for their respective schools.

Group Photo of Team IBSC

We congratulate medal winners especially IBSC members who have broken the meet records with their smashing swim.

The top performing swimmer was Steve Khiew (Group 2 Boys) who broke one national age group record (AR) in 200m backstroke with an amazing time of 2:11.97 to rewrite a 2014 national age group record of 2:15.04 (HKG). Steve also held 2 other meet records in 400m free and 400m IM. Congratulations!

Other record holders were :

Individual Meet Records
Steve Khiew
Boys 13-14 200 Back Group 2 2:11.97 (AR)
Boys 13-14 400 Free Group 2 4:17.64
Boys 13-14 400 IM Group 2 4:49.83

Brandy Chew  
Boys 15-17 200 Back Group 1 2:14.22

Sebastian Soon 
Boys 15-17 200 IM Group 1 2:14.31

Sadie Gordon
Girls 13-14 50 Back Group 2 32.11


Relay Meet Records

Boys 15-17 4x100 Free Group 1 Relay 3:47.29 - Team IBSC
(Anson Chew,  Sebastian Soon, Ng Kai Wen, Low Ken Ji)

Boys 15-17 4x100 Medley Group 1 4:05.67 - Team IBSC
(Sebastian Soon, Adam Afif, Low Ken Ji, Anson Chew)

At the end of the 3-day meet, IBSC came top in the medal tally with 58 gold, 55 silver and 44 bronze.

Group	IBSC Swimmer	MR	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Boys 9-10	Teo Zun Jet		2		1
	Tobin Sia Xianhua			4	3
	Muhd Dhuha Bin Zulfikry			1	1
Boys 11-12	Ng K-Yang		2	2	2
	Whisky Chew			1	1
	Daud Agam				1
Boys 13-14	Steve Khiew Hoe Yean	3	8		1
	Zachary Lim Hong Sern			3	1
Boys 15-17	Sebastian Soon	1	3	2	1
	Brandy Chew	1	1	2
	Low Ken Ji		3
	Adam Afif Bin Faizal		2	1
	Chew Chee Ming		1	2	1
	Wong Jun Bin		1	2
	Goh Yue Hong		1
	Ng Kai Wen		1	1
	Jackson Khiew			2	2
	Kevin Lim Kit Min				2
	Rohan Lee			1
	Ng Hung Teck				1
Boys Open	Joshi Jundi Ammar Karim		5
	Nicholas Soon		3	2
	Daniel Lee				1

Group	Girls Swimmer	MR	Gold	Silver	Bronze
Girls 8&U	Shelly Ting Xin Ru				1
Girls 9-10	Liew Xiao Rou			5	1
	Keira Liew Qian Hui				1
Girls 11-12	Ng Zi Syuen		6	3	3
	Chelsea Lee Ning		2	2	2
	Leong Jia Wen		1
	Teo Sze Hui			1	3
	Tee Boon Xi				2
Girls 13-14	Ashley Ting			1	3
	Yeong Zhen Yi				3
Girls 15-17	Karla Lim Kay Yee		2	2
	See Zhi Syuen		1	5
	Tan Yi Qin			2	3
	Alia Bt Dato Salleh			2
Girls Open	Farra Dyana Bt Arrfin		2

MR-Meet Record

We thank the hard work of coaches at various levels in producing excellent results for the swimmers. Many great PBs were charted with significant times being slashed by committed swimmers. The pre-comp swimmers, some of which experienced their first ever race in the meet, also did well by improving leaps and bounds.

The team managers, chaperones and volunteers are to be applauded as well for taking care of the welfare of the swimmers and in marshaling them.

Steve Khiew (left) with Sebastian both smashed the meet records on day 1 of the race

Steve Khiew with his excellent performance, broke a total of 2 meet records and an national age group record

Sadie Gordon, achieved a new record in 50m back

Brandy Chew struck a new record in 200m back in Group 1 Boys

Group 4 Girls relay, from left, Kelly Long, Liew Xiao Rou, Ng Zi Shin, Kiera Liew

Group 3 Boys medley relay, from left, Andi, Yap Min Shun, Steve Khiew, Linus Dengah

Coach Kamal, very attentive during the meet

Ng Zi Syuen won 6 gold, 3 silver and 3 bronze in Group 3 Girls

The full results may be downloaded here.

See more photos at IBSC Gallery