Two Singaporean Information Go Down At National SC Invitational

2026 SINGAPORE NATIONAL SWIMMING SC INVITATIONAL

The 2026 Singapore National Swimming Short Course Invitational wrapped up tonight on the OCBC Aquatic Centre, with the competitors representing one other racing alternative forward of this yr’s Asian Games. That elite worldwide affair sees motion kick off on September nineteenth.

At this home meet, nonetheless, two nationwide information bit the mud, each occurring on the lads’s facet.

First, 20-year-old Brandon Yap made it occur within the prelims of the 200m butterfly, with the Aquarian Aquatic School athlete firing off a lifetime better of 1:55.99 to assert the highest seed.

Yap break up 26.45/41.15/55.96/1:10.770/1:25.47/1:40.53/1:55.99 to ascertain the brand new benchmark, simply overtaking the previous Singaporean document of 1:56.42 that Ong Jung Yi placed on the books on the 2021 Singaporean Championships.

In the ultimate, Yap added a while, however nonetheless handily defeated the sphere in 1:56.21. That gave him the gold by over eight seconds forward of the competitors.

The 200m fly marks Yap’s first particular person Singaporean document.

The different document to chunk the mud got here by the hands of Julian Lee within the males’s 200m again.

18-year-old Lee stopped the clock at a mighty 1:55.01 as the only swimmer to dip below 2:09 within the decisive victory.

Lee break up 26.86/41.44/56.06/1:10.74/1:25.45/1:40.31/1:55.01 to erase the previous Singaporean document of 1:56.70 Zackery Tay established throughout the 2024 World Aquatics Swimming World Cup.

This, too, checks in as Lee’s first Singapore particular person document.