Saturday 3 November 2007

Asian Indoor Games – Day 4

The Indian swimmers were not able to finish the meet the way it started. Only one final, 100m Individual Medley, featured Indian swimmers – Shikha Tandon and Richa Mishra.

Overall India had a good meet finishing with two silver medals. This was slightly better than the last edition where India won one silver medal (Arjun Muralidharan in the 200m Butterfly) and one bronze medal (Shikha Tandon in the 100m Backstroke). Sandeep Sejwal was the star of meet winning both the silver medals.


The results:

100m Individual Medley (Women) – Hong Kong’s Hiu Wai Sherry Tsai won her fourth gold medal with a new record time of 1:02.49. Hong Kong’s Hang Yu Sze won the silver with a time of 1:04.02. Thailand’s Natthanan Junkrajang won the bronze with a time of 1:04.86

Shikha Tandon finished a creditable 5th with a time of 1:06.71 and Richa Mishra finished 7th with a time of 1:08.02.

The World Record is in the name of Natalie Coughlin of USA with a time of 58.80 set in 2002.

100m Individual Medley (Men) – Thailand’s Radomyos Matjiur made it a double by winning in a new record time of 55.61. Chinese Taipei’s Wei Wen Wang and Kazakhstan’s Artur Dilman tied for place second with time of 57.04.

Rehan Poncha clocked 58.72 in the heats and was placed 10th overall.

The World Record is in the name of Ryk Neethling of South Africa with a time of 51.52 set in 2005.

100m Freestyle (Women) – Hong Kong’s Hannah Jane Arnett Wilson won her second gold with a new record time of 55.17. Korea’s Jae Young Lee won the silver with a time of 55.79. China’s Binan Wu won the bronze with a time of 56.98.

Shikha Tandon narrowly missed making it to the finals, finishing 9th, with a time of 1:00.36.

The World Record is in the name of Lisbeth Lenton of Australia with a time of 51.70 set in 2005.

100m Freestyle (Men) – China’s Yu Liu finished first with a new record time of 49.79. Kyrgyzstan’s Vasilii Danilov finished second with a time of 49.98. Kazakhstan’s Alexandr Sklyar finished third with a time of 50.16.

The World Record is in the name of Roland Schoeman of South Africa with a time of 46.25 set in 2005.

50m Breaststroke (Women) – Korea’s Suyoung Lim made it a double by winning with a new record time of 32.22. China’s Jingwen Tan came in second with a time of 32.37. Hong Kong’s Ka Yi Suen came in third with a time of 32.84.

The World Record is in the name of Jade Edmistone of Australia with a time of 29.90 set in 2004.

Note: All timings have been clocked in a Short course pool.

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