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Giant leap by DSA Swim Team at
President Cup 2017
DSA rakes in a huge total of 725 points with 12 new records at eventful Meet
DSA swimmers notched The 36th National Inter-Club Swimming Swimmer, Welson Sim was part of the
up a fabulous performance Championship for The President Cup was DSA team as a guest swimmer this year
to close the calendar year, held at the newly renovated National also, adding a new record in his event at
almost doubling the points Aquatic Centre, KL Sports City on the the Meet. Welson’s presence was a huge
tally of the last President 24-26th November, 2017. The Meet had morale boost and a source of immense
Cup. 45 clubs from all over Malaysia taking inspiration to the young and upcoming
part in what was as usual, the most swimmers of DSA. The champion had
10 hotly contested Meet of the swimming lots of tips to give the youngsters after
calendar in Malaysia. The setting was his brilliant record breaking wins earlier
prime with the upgraded facilities at the in the same arena for the SEA Games in
National Aquatic Centre being par with August.
the best international standards.
DSA swimmers notched up a fabulous
Malaysia National and Olympic performance to close the calendar year,
almost doubling the points tally of the
last President Cup. There were plenty
of top placings with Misa Okuzono,
Yap Yong Jie and Darren Lew Chen
Jet bringing in top honours with more
than 15 first placings between them.
Misa Okuzono also created 7 new Meet
records, while Koh Tech Chen, Yap Yong
Jie and Darren Lew Chen Jet added a
new Meet record each to the tally. In
addition, the 4×100 Relay team in the
Boys 5-17 years also set a new time for
the event. Great contributions were also
made by Liam Eu Li-An, Dian Isandra
Johan, Yumi Okuzono, Chong Hiong
Kiet and GeorgeneWee Ee Jern for their
events. A detailed list of the placings are
given below.
With the last event of the year wrapped
