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Asean University Games: Eight-gold target a swim too far for national team

Contingent has managed to only secure two gold, five silver, three bronze medals after two days

Updated 4 years ago · Published on 28 Jul 2022 2:07PM

Asean University Games: Eight-gold target a swim too far for national team
Low Zheng Yong (left) wins Malaysia’s first gold in the men’s 400m freestyle category at the Asean University Games 2022 – @welsonsimp Twitter pic, July 28, 2022

UBON RATCHATHANI – The national swimming team are hard-pressed to achieve their eight-gold target at the Asean University Games (AUG) 2022 following the underperformance of several medal prospects.

Swimming team manager Tan Seng Seng admitted that the target had become difficult to achieve but he is hoping his charges would finish with a flourish in the remaining three days of competition.

“After two days of competition, the swimming camp has won two gold, five silver and three bronze medals. In the finals on Tuesday, we missed out on two golds, including via Welson Sim our golden hope.

“Although tough, I feel it can be achieved based on the current performance of our athletes. After this there are events in which we are gold medal contenders,” he said.

On the first day of the swimming competition, the national team won the contingent’s first gold through Low Zheng Yong in the men’s 400m freestyle.

The second gold came from Ong Yong Qi in the women’s 200m butterfly yesterday. – Bernama, July 28, 2022

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