Thais monopolize SEA swimming meet

Thais monopolize SEA swimming meet

JAKARTA (JP): Thai swimmers monopolized the 24th Southeast
Asia inter-club age group swimming championship by winning 23
golds yesterday on the last day of the three-day competition.

Singaporean swimmers trailed by winning 14 golds from the 40
events contested yesterday. Host Indonesia won only two golds,
four silvers and 10 bronzes.

Five meet records were broken yesterday, four by Thai swimmers
and one by a Singaporean.

Suriya Suksuprak of the Boonward Brewery Bangkok club produced
a record of 0:32.25 in the 50 meters butterfly boys aged 10 and
under, 0.02 seconds faster than the previous record by Aung Soe
Cun of the MST club in 1996.

Teammate Nipaporn Tangtorrit also clocked a record of 0:32.28
in the 50m butterfly girls aged 10 and under. The previous record
was set in 0:33.26 by Chutima Wongthien of the Satit Prasarnmit
Bangkok club in 1995.

Another Boonward swimmer, Chgrkaew Choompol, produced a record
of 0:33.19 in the 50m backstroke girls 11 to 12 years, only 0.01
of a second faster than the record set by Kamolchanok
Khantidilokvongsa in 1966.

Thamarog Assadamongkol of Royal Turf Bangkok clocked 0:35.75
to set a record. The old record was produced by Piyawat
Kraithamjitkul of the Khemasiri Bangkok in 0:35.86.

Gary Tan of the Christian college Singapore broke the 0:29.10
record, by Gary Tan Lee Yu of the same club in 1996, in 0:29.01.

Indonesian Hans Yosaputra of Aquarius Indonesia set a record
of 0:29.72 in the 50m butterfly boys 11 to 12 years. The old
record was set by Jonathan Chua of SSC in 1994.

Teammate Ira Kurniawan clocked a record of 0:29.71 in the 50m
butterfly girls. Joscelin Yeo of the People's Association Youth
of Singapore, who is his country's best swimmer, matched the
record of 0:28.90 which was set in 1994.

More than 100 swimmers from 27 clubs from seven countries
competed in the championship.

The Bangkok Christian College will stage the championship next
year. (yan)