KUCHING: Federal Territories (FT) swimmer Bryan Leong bettered the Malaysia Games (Sukma) 50-metre butterfly record twice in one day at the Pandelela Rinong Aquatics Centre today.
In the morning preliminary round, Bryan broke Jie Chan's record of 25.13 seconds with a time of 24.81s.
Then in the final, he improved on that time by posting 24.46s to win gold ahead of Penang's Chris Chew (24.94s) and Johor's Bernie Elle (25.17s).
The 21-year-old, who also holds the national record of 24.08s set this year, said: "I'm quite happy with winning gold for FT but the timing... you can always hope for better.
"I was trying to improve my national record, but I was quite happy to come away with a meet record twice.
"My next individual event is the 100m butterfly, and I will try to break my national record in that event," Bryan said.
Sarawak's Hii Puong Wei was the other Sukma record breaker today as he blazed the pool in the 200m backstroke, posting two minutes 06.59s to erase Tern Jian Han's record of 2:07.02s set in 2014.
FT's David Lee won silver (2:11.32s) while Aslan Adnan from Selangor (2:11.44s) won bronze.
RESULTS
Men's 200m backstroke: 1 Hii Puong Wei (Swk) 2:06.59s (MR), 2 David Lee (FT) 2:11.32, 3 Aslan Adnan (Sel) 2:11.44;
100m freestyle: 1 Dhuha Zulfikry (FT) 51.52, 2 Jayden Goh (Sgr) 51.88, 3 Loke Yew Jien (Sgr) 51.90;
50m butterfly: 1 Bryan Leong (FT) 24.46 (MR), 2 Chris Chew (Pen) 24.94, 3 Bernie Lee (Jhr) 25.17;
200m IM: 1 Jayden Tan (FT) 2:04.86, 2 Henry Goh (Sgr) 2:07.90, 3 Elson Lee (Pen) 2:08.06.
Women's 200m backstroke: 1 Kelly Teo (Swk) 2:21.79s, 2 Vivian Tee (Pen) 2:25.72, 3 Shanise Jauwa Anak Joseline Adong;
100m freestyle: 1 Khew Zi Xian (Sel) 58.36s, 2 Loo Yie Bing (Sbh) 58.46, 3 Lynna Yeow (Mlk) 58.61;
50m butterfly: 1 Wong Shi Qi (Phg) 28.27, 2 Lim Shun Qi (Sgr) 28.44, 3 Ho Wei Yan (FT) 28.50;
200m IM: 1. Chong Xin Lin (FT) 2:24.04, 2 Alicia Li (Jhr) 2:24.91, 3 Chereen Ngo Yirui (Swk) 2:26.57.
Mixed 4x100m relay: 1 Selangor 4:00.30 (new event, MR), 2 Federal Territories 4:02.20, 3 Sarawak 4:09.15.