PERAK’s Kevin Yeap Soon Choy wrapped up the final day of the swimming competition in style with a new Games record in the men’s 1,500m freestyle at the Hang Jebat Aquatic Centre yesterday.
The 21-year-old national swimmer, who had won the 400m race in a meet record time the previous day, thus earned a double in the distance freestyle event for the third consecutive time in the Games.
Yesterday, Kevin finished the 30-lap race in 15:59.08 to erase his previous time of 16:07.71 set in Terengganu two years ago.
Sarawak’s Vernon Lee clinched the silver medal in 16:27.82 and the bronze medal went to Selangor’s Yip Kin Seng in 16:54.17.
“It is another excellent result for me today (yesterday),” said Kevin, who has a personal best of 15:51.80, which he clocked to take the silver medal at the Laos SEA Games last year.
“I am happy to retain the gold medal and to set another Sukma record. My time at the Laos SEA Games was better but I am happy to dip below 16 minutes.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Territories Chan Kah Yan emerged as a star performer in swimming, bagging seven gold medals and setting two new meet records.
Yesterday, she won two gold medals in the women’s 100m backstroke and 4x100m medley together with Christina Loh, Chong Siew Mun and Tania Lee. She had earlier won gold in the 100m, 200m and 800m freestyle, 200m backstroke and 200m individual medley.
FT emerged as the overall winners in swimming with a medal haul of 17-12-7.
The 21-year-old national swimmer, who had won the 400m race in a meet record time the previous day, thus earned a double in the distance freestyle event for the third consecutive time in the Games.
Yesterday, Kevin finished the 30-lap race in 15:59.08 to erase his previous time of 16:07.71 set in Terengganu two years ago.
Sarawak’s Vernon Lee clinched the silver medal in 16:27.82 and the bronze medal went to Selangor’s Yip Kin Seng in 16:54.17.
“It is another excellent result for me today (yesterday),” said Kevin, who has a personal best of 15:51.80, which he clocked to take the silver medal at the Laos SEA Games last year.
“I am happy to retain the gold medal and to set another Sukma record. My time at the Laos SEA Games was better but I am happy to dip below 16 minutes.”
Meanwhile, the Federal Territories Chan Kah Yan emerged as a star performer in swimming, bagging seven gold medals and setting two new meet records.
Yesterday, she won two gold medals in the women’s 100m backstroke and 4x100m medley together with Christina Loh, Chong Siew Mun and Tania Lee. She had earlier won gold in the 100m, 200m and 800m freestyle, 200m backstroke and 200m individual medley.
FT emerged as the overall winners in swimming with a medal haul of 17-12-7.
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