Ten years ago, swimmer Quah Ting Wen wanted to be the first Singaporean woman to go under two minutes in the 200m freestyle race. She achieved it that same year, at the Asian Youth Games on home soil.
A decade later, the 26-year-old has broken new ground again, but in a different event. Yesterday, she became the first local to go under 55 seconds in the women's 100m free, rewriting the national record twice in a day in the process. The Swimfast Aquatic Club athlete topped the heats at the Liberty Insurance 50th Singapore National Age Group Swimming Championships in 54.98 seconds yesterday morning, bettering her mark of 55.41s at the Singapore Swim Series last month.
Quah set another personal best again in the finals in the same day with 54.82s, while AquaTech Swimming's Cherlyn Yeoh and Jasmine Alkhaldi of the Philippines were second and third respectively. "I was the first woman under 56 seconds for the 100 free," she said, referring to her 55.80sec effort in 2009 to break Joscelin Yeo's 10-year national record of 56.05.
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