Comeback Meet 2: Day 1
The boys 100m breaststroke got under way today with the second in the series of “Comeback Meets’.
Ethan took a massive 11 seconds off his entry time in 1:48. Siming dropped 6 seconds on the way to his lifetime best of 1:52. Zeyu also knocked 7 seconds off his best time to go 1:58. Great spread of PBs for the boys. The girls had 100m backstroke today and Lara went 1:50 for a new PB of 1:50. Jiadai went 1:38 ahead of her sister Jialan in 1:47. Out of 5 swims today the team posted 4 new personal bests. The challenge by the end of the meet is to beat last weeks 80% PB rate! Tomorrow the boys will switch with the girls and take on backstroke while the girls will update their 100m breaststroke times.
Day 2 of Comeback Meet 2 comes to a close.
Today we had 3 girls representing the team in the 100m breaststroke event at OCBC Aquatic Centre in Singapore. Lena produced a great swim to post a 1:55, dropping her time by over a second. Lara also had a good swim dropping a massive 12 seconds to go 2:00. Laila showed that she could go 15 seconds quicker than her best but sadly was DQ'd on her breakout, no doubt a talent to watch for the future. Today's 2x PBs adds a further 7 Personal Bests to the total. For Comeback Meet 2 Stamford Lions have 7 PBs from 9 swims and just 1x DQ.
Day 3 Comeback Meet 2 Wow!
Outstanding performances from our younger swimmers today with everyone competing grabbing themselves a PB! Ethan delivered a great 100m butterfly dropping a massive 12 second personal best to finish 22nd in 1:47. He was the sole representative from the Stamford boys to take on the fly event. The girls were racing 100m freestyle and PBs were flowing! Katie dropped her time by 7 seconds down to 1:15 to finish 6th in the 11yr olds. Ebba smashed her time by 19 seconds to come home in a 1:34. Laila looked strong in 1:39 with another 7 second drop. Mia slipped under her time in 1:23 with a 2 seconds PB. Jiadai dropped 3 seconds to 1:25 whilst sister Jialan went 1:28 for her lifetime best. Shreya took out her target by swimming 8 seconds under in 1:39. Saki went 1:20, a delightful 4 seconds better than she had swum previous. Mehr dropped 5 seconds to go 1:24 for her 100m freestyle, well done Mehr! Olivia made her swim worthwhile with a 1:17 dropping her time by 1.5 seconds. Out of 12 swims today all were PBs! The team have just one more day left to go. So far they have collected 19 PBs from 21 swims (90.4% PB rate) with just 1x DQ. With one more day left to go they are well on their way to beating last weeks target of 80% personal bests!
The final day was long awaited by many coaches and swim teams like.
Day 4 finished at the OCBC Aquatic Centre with Stamford Lions Swim Academy walking away with another day of flawless personal bests.
The swimmers achieved 100% PBs today! It was a day of boys 100m freestyle. Both Ethan’s produced personal best times, one going 1:28 dropping a second and the other producing an 8 second PB in 1:29. Kaede was in fine form, his 1:21 was a massive 11 second drop, something to be proud of. Ali pushed hard down his 100m freestyle posting a 1:24. Siming no doubt enjoyed his double lap of the long course pool with a 15 second bomb of a PB to go 1:26. Brother of Ali, Can, went 1:30 which was a 3 second drop for him. Arjan took 2 seconsd off his best time with a 1:31. Armaan took the biggest number of seconds off his time with a 20 second personal best in 1:36. Roman swam well and dropped another 5 seconds to go 1:37. There is a lovely group of these boys now developing at Stamford, Nico was part of the crew with a 1:37, bettering his time by 6 seconds. In the older age groups, Santi went 1:13, giving all he had, and running completely on empty over the dying meters. It was a 9 second PB. Byron had a great warm-up this time round for his 100m freestyle and it showed. He dropped his time to 1:14, a lovely 5 second drop. Training partner Diego wasn;t far behind with a 1:16 that was also a PB for him. It will be really great to see these boys back training together when restrictions allow. The day finished with 13 swims and 13 PBs, races that both coaches and swimmers can be proud of.
The running PB total stops at 32 PBs from 34 swims, a whopping 94.1% rate. Many thanks to coaches Grace, Heikal, Kelvin & Darren for managing the bubbles of students and to Singapore Swimming Association for their meticulous planning and organisation to make this possible.
