S'pore male swimmers shine

S'pore male swimmers shine

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN (AFP): Singapore's men swimmers, who have shown vast improvements in the current Southeast Asian (SEA) Games, may come out of the long shadow of record-breaking lass Joscelin Yeo.

"I have spoken to some coaches from Thailand and Indonesia and according to them, our boys will be knocking on their doors pretty soon," said Singapore chief coach David Lim.

He cited silver medal winners Mark Chay in the 200m freestyle, Gary Tan in the 100m backstroke and Daniel Liew in the 200m breaststroke.

"They came behind Southeast Asian and Asian champs and the foreign coaches say they are the men to be watched in the next SEA Games," Lim said.

Singapore emerged with seven gold, 10 silver and nine bronze medals in swimming at the SEA Games here. At the last games in Jakarta in 1997, they won four gold medals.

The 20-year-old Yeo won six gold medals this time, breaking the competition records in six of the seven individual events she participated.

Thailand took the lion's share of the swimming gold medals, winning 13 of the total 32. Malaysia grabbed seven golds while Indonesia took five.