Christina And Kevin Meet Olympics Invitational Qualifying Time

PETALING JAYA: Swimmers Kevin Yeap and Christina Loh, who were first-time gold medallists at the Indonesia SEA Games last year, indicated they are worthy of places in the London Olympics by meeting the qualifying standards at the Singapore national age-group tournament last weekend.

The national swimmers marked their first outing of the year with a medal haul of 11-3-3 in the meet, which is the first designated Olympic qualifier for the region.

But the significant efforts came from Kevin and Christina, who dipped under the Olympic invitational time in the respective boys over 18 and over 1500m freestyle and girls 15-17 100m breaststroke finals.

Kevin clocked a personal best of 15:40.54 to settle for the silver behind India’s Sangvekar Saurabh, who won in 15:34.67. The Olympic invitational time for the longest race in the men’s division is 15:43.74.