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Swimming: Cai Lin Sets New Record, Qualifies For World Championship


Cai Lin Sets New Swimming Record. Pic: HairulKUALA LUMPUR, May 23 (Bernama) -- National swimmer, Khoo Cai Lin has become the first Malaysian swimmer to qualify for the World Championship scheduled to be held in Shanghai, China, next year.

Cai Lin, 22, who represented Selangor at the 53rd Malaysian Open Swimming Championship, clocked eight minutes 48.53 seconds in the women's 800m freestyle event to set a meet record en route to the gold.

She erased the previous record set by Zheng Jing of China in 2002 and with the new time, Cai Lin made the cut for the World Championship where the qualifying time for this event is 8:48.70s.

"I am satisfied with today's timing. Yesterday, I tried to break the record in the 400m in trying to qualify for the World Championship but I failed to do so. Definitely, I am very satisfied with today's result," said Cai Lin.

In yesterday's women's 400m freestyle event, Cai Lin clocked 4:20.15s to clinch the gold medal. However the timing was slower than the World Championship qualifying time of 4:17.64s.

She will not be representing Selangor in the upcoming Malaysia Games (Sukma) in Melaka, as she has already represented Malaysia in the 2008 Beijing Olympics.

"Since there are no major competitions for me in these few months before the Commonwealth and Asian Games, I will be participating in two competitions in United States next month as part of my preparation for both Games," said Cai Lin.

She noted that she will be participating in the Meets of the Champion competition in San Diego and in Santa Clara, United States.

On the final day of the Malaysian Open Swimming Championship today, two more meet records were broken.

The Hong Kong quartet of Andrea Wan, Rainbow Ip, Wong Yee Ching and Cheng Yuen Yue set a new record in the 4x100m medley relay by setting a new time of 4:24.52s. They erased the record set by their previous swimmer in 2008.

The silver and bronze medal was won by the team from Kuala Lumpur and Sabah, with times of 4:34.43s and 4:37.05s respectively.

In the men's 4x100m medley relay, Singapore's quartet -- Rainer Ng, Mark Tan, Yeo Jia Chen and Mattias Ng -- denied Hong Kong's a double celebration in the event after putting on a strong challenge.

The Singaporean quartet clocked 3:54.55s to erase the previous mark of 3:59.94 set by Hong Kong in 2008, while Hong Kong settled for the silver with 3:55.07s and Iran claimed the bronze with 4:01.38s.

-- BERNAMA

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