SEAG veterans rule swimming championships<\/p>\n
JAKARTA (JP): Members of Indonesia's 18th Southeast Asian
\nGames team dominated an interclub swimming championships at the
\nSoemantri Brodjonegoro pool, South Jakarta yesterday.<\/p>\n
Elsa Manora Nasution, from the Telanaipura Club, Jambi, was
\nthe only one to set a new meet record when she clocked 2:25.82 in
\nthe 200-meter individual medley.<\/p>\n
Elsa, who brought no gold home from the SEA Games, cut her
\nelder sister Maya Masita's five-year-old mark by 35 hundredths of
\na second. The national record of 2:25.22 set by Nasution's eldest
\ndaughter Elfira Rosa in the 1991 SEA Games in Manila remains
\nsafe.<\/p>\n
Organizers failed to announce all but one official record
\nbreaking time yesterday, the penultimate day of the annual swim
\nmeet.<\/p>\n
Elsa got off to a flying splash, leading the pack on line 6
\nwith SEA Games teammates Meitri W. Pangestika of Bina Taruna,
\nPurwokerto, Central Java, and Olga Halim of the Women's S.C.,
\nPadang, West Sumatra closely trailing.<\/p>\n
The top-three lineup did not change when all the swimmers
\nentered the final sprint in freestyle stroke. Meitri finished
\nsecond with 2:27.27, ahead of Olga, who slowed down for 2:31.11.<\/p>\n
Earlier, Elsa also won a gold medal in the 200-meter
\nbackstroke. The 18-year-old Jambi girl found no real challenge,
\ntouching the finish block in 2:27.46, almost 20 meters ahead of
\nsecond finisher Silvi Triana of the Tirta Taruna club, Jakarta.
\nSilvi set 2:31.50. Evelyne Surya of the Tirta Baruna, Cirebon,
\nWest Java, clocked 2:32.70 for the bronze.<\/p>\n
Another SEA Games veteran, Catherine Surya, who swam under the
\nbanner of Cirebon's Tirta Baruna, dominated her favorite 200-
\nmeter butterfly stroke in an unofficial time of 2:19.07. Her mark
\nwas 1.51 seconds faster than the old record set by Maya Masita in
\n1991.<\/p>\n
Olga took the silver with 2:23.12, and Susanti Wangsawiguna
\nfrom the Aquarius club, Bandung finished in 2:24.46 for the
\nbronze.<\/p>\n
Tirta Taruna, powered by its SEA Games swimmers, ruled the
\nmen's division of the championships, which will close today.<\/p>\n
In the 20meter individual medley, Albert C. Sutanto from the
\nTirta Taruna club, Jakarta, powered in at 2:12.16, out sprinting
\nAudy Octavian of the Magelang, Central Java-based Prima, who
\nmanaged only 2:15.93. Albert's teammate, Ardianto Wahyudi,
\nfinished third in 2:18.82.<\/p>\n
Albert's brother Felix shined in the 200-meter backstroke.
\nSetting the pace from the onset, he clocked 2:11.90, leaving
\nKristian Johanes of Sampoerna, Bandung, and Denny Kurniawan of
\nBumi Phala, Temanggung, Central Java, behind.<\/p>\n
Kristian finished nine seconds slower than Felix to take the
\nsilver after a neck-to-neck battle against Denny who was timed at
\n2:19.94.<\/p>\n
Tirta Taruna's hopeful in the 200-meter butterfly, Tirto Adji,
\nadded another gold without serious challenges from Sumanto of the
\nDetis Sari I., Pematang Siantar, North Sumatra, and Steven
\nChandra of Hiu, Surabaya.<\/p>\n
Tirto finished first in 2:08.90, 0.8 of a second slower than
\nthe meet record set by the late Vidi Lukman Korompis. Sumanto
\nclocked 2:10.16 and Steven 2:12.11.<\/p>\n
The Tirta Taruna team confirmed its supremacy by winning gold
\nand silver medals in the 4 by 200-meter freestyle relay.<\/p>\n
The Tirta Taruna B quartet, consisting of Albert C. Sutanto,
\nArief P. Warsono, Ardiyanto Wahyudi and Wisnu Wardana, finished
\nfirst in 8:22.12 to beat their teammates Richard Sam Bera, Maher
\nHowan, Felix C. Sutanto and Tirto Adji, who made 8:24.46. The
\nbronze medal went to the Aquarius A team. (05)<\/p>",
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