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Silver lining in overcast Meet for DSA

35th National Inter-Club Swimming Championship (President Cup)

Inclement weather played spoilsport at Unfortunately, many of them had to pull Swim Team in this President Cup in order
the 35th National Inter-Club Swimming out of their events due to the adverse to encourage, guide and share some
Championship for The President Cup conditions on the first day affecting of his experiences with his young DSA
held in the last weekend of November the overall performance of the team. swimmers. The excitement was visible as
this year. Over the 3 days, 25th to 27th, The team put in their best efforts in the the young swimmers listened attentively
there were intermittent bouts of rain, and remaining days to retain the third position to Welson and were enthralled that he
the weather remained dull and gloomy overall with a total of 387.50 points. was able to spend time with them.
and this created some concerns for the
swimmers of DSA Swim Team. It was heart warming to see Welson The medal winners included young Yap
Sim, Malaysian Olympic swimmer, who Yong Jie in the Group 4 Boys, who
This year, the team of over 90 swimmers recently had become the first Malaysian despite being disadvantaged won 2
had a fair sprinkling of newcomers and Swimmer to have qualified for the Rio Silver and 3 Bronze and is promising
this was a big Meet for most of them. Olympics, voluntarily represent DSA to be a sound champion for the future.
Yumi and Misa Okuzono made the
Swimmer Name Group Event Medal most of the events they participated in
YAP YONG JIE GROUP 4 BOYS 50M BUTTERFLY BRONZE the last 2 days. Misa brought home 2
" 50M BACKSTROKE SILVER Gold, 2 Silver and 1 Bronze while Yumi
GEORGENE WEE EE JERN won 1 Gold and 2 Bronze in her events.
MISA OKUZONO " 100M BUTTERFLY BRONZE Welson Sim won a solitary Gold in the
" 100M FREESTYLE BRONZE Open Boys Group for 100m Freestyle
YUMI OKUZONO clocking in 51.17 with a new meet record.
DARREN LEW CHEN JET " 100M BACKSTROKE SILVER Among other swimmers, Georgene Wee
WELSON SIM WEE SHENG GROUP 3 GIRLS 100M BREASTSTROKE SILVER bagged a Silver and Bronze in her events
" 50M BREASTSTROKE BRONZE and Darren Lew also won a Bronze in
GROUP 4 GIRLS 100M BUTTERFLY GOLD 100m Free in Group 3 Boys. The big
takeaway from the Meet however, was
" 50M BREASTSTROKE SILVER the remarkable improvement in the
" 100M FREESTYLE SILVER Personal Best’s (PBs) of a majority of the
" 100M BACKSTROKE GOLD swimmers. Almost every other swimmer
" 50M FREESTYLE BRONZE has improved on their timings and that
GROUP 3 GIRLS 100M BUTTERFLY GOLD in itself is quite impressive, though the
" 100M BACKSTROKE BRONZE medals count may have dipped from the
" 50M FREESTYLE BRONZE previous year.
GROUP 3 BOYS 100M FREESTYLE BRONZE
OPEN BOYS 100M FREESTYLE GOLD A detailed list of the medal winners are
shown in the table.

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