Khiew Hoe Yean Units Malaysian File, Wins 8 Golds at Malaysian Open
Malaysian worldwide Khiew Hoe Yean lowered his Malaysian file within the males’s 200 particular person medley this weekend on the Malaysian Open.
Hoe Yean went 2:03.29 on Sunday, the ultimate day of 4 on the Milo/Mas Malaysia Open on the Nationwide Aquatic Heart in Kuala Lumpur. It lowered his nationwide file of two:03.77 from the 2023 version of this meet. His time is .07 off the consideration time for the 2025 World Aquatics Championships in Singapore.
Hoe Yean had a busy weekend, swimming for Kuala Lumpur Aquatics. He gained the 100 freestyle on the opening day in 50.00 seconds, then the 100 backstroke in 56.41. He added a win within the 200 free in 1:48.46 on the second day, then pulled a double on Saturday by claiming the 400 free in 3:52.55 and the 200 again in 2:04.21. The time within the 100 free is a Worlds consideration reduce, as is his 200 free and 400 free. He swam the 400 free on the Paris Olympics, Malaysia’s lone male swimmer there.
The meet included no A cuts, however a smattering of B cuts and a handful of nationwide data from a number of swimmers from Southeast Asia and Africa. Muhammad Dhuha Bin Zulfikry joined Hoe Yean with a B reduce within the 400 free, ending second in 3:55.96. The boys’s 50 breaststroke additionally produced two B cuts, with Felix Viktor Iberle successful in 27.52, with Tsui Yik Ki second in 27.96. Tsui went 27.76 in prelims to trim .23 seconds off his Hong Kong file.
Jayden Tan of Singapore reduce .05 seconds underneath the B time of the 400 IM along with his 4:26.44. Surasit Thongdeang of Thailand gained the 200 fly in 2:00.52, a B reduce by lower than a tenth, as was the two:17.45 that Wui Kiu Man used to win the ladies’s 200 IM.
Bangladeshi swimmer Samiul Islam Rafi additionally had an enormous weekend. The 27-year-old gained the 50 again in 26.83, enhancing on his nationwide file of 27.20. It’s one in every of 4 nationwide marks for him on the meet. He went 58.48 within the 100 again to chip a half-second off his file from Worlds in 2024, then his 26.01 within the 50 fly was a .05-second enchancment. He additionally went 2:12.12 within the 200 IM, 1.5 seconds quicker than Mohamed Juwel Ahmed’s nationwide mark from 2017.
Singapore’s Nicholle Toh was the massive winner on the ladies’s aspect, claiming the 100 free, 50 fly, 200 free and 100 fly. Teenager Adelia Aulia of Indonesia gained three occasions.
Indian breaststroker Likith Prema gained the boys’s 100 breast on Saturday. Indonesian Olympian Joe Kurniawan gained the 100 fly. Additionally among the many opponents on the meet had been Paris Olympians Hassane Hadji (Comoros), Pedro Rogery (Guinea-Bissau), Kestra Kihleng (Micronesia), Olamide Sam (Sierra Leone) and Jolanio Guterres (Timor-Leste).
