Singapore Masters 2015

A small contingent of swimmers represented NUS staff at the annual Singapore Masters Swimming organized by APS swimming. It was a great chance to welcome two new team members: Wen Shuang and Ruben Fernandez. Together with team veteran Qingsong, they managed to collect a considerable amount of medals! Here are a few photos of the event courtesy of Qingsong's camera (as usual).

 NUS staff swimmers with their medals. From left to right: Ruben, Qingsong and Wen Shuang.

 Ruben's backstroke

 Ruben ahead from the start!

 Wen Shuang's butterfly (she won gold in the 200 Individual Medley event)

Wen Shuang in lane 8 at the start of the silver-medal-winning 50 butterfly

Public Servie 2015: good medal count and tough competition

The 2015 edition of the Public Service Swim Meeting took place on April 25th. NUS was represented by a small but strong team of 5 swimmers.

The NUS team. From left to right: Andrew Wee, Choo Hengkek, Alberto Corrias, Lin Qingsong and Guillem Riambau

Hengkek successfully defended his title in the 50m freestyle active agers event for the third consecutive yar! Once again, he dominated the event from the start...

Hengkek already ahead of everyone

In the same event, Andrew Wee came third collecting one his 3 medals of the day. Andrew also won (again!) the 50m breastroke active agers event and came second in the 50m backstroke.

The 400m freestyle master event saw an incredibly close battle for 3rd place between Alberto and Guillem. While both swimmers achieved their goal of a sub-6 swim, Alberto snatched the medal for a mere 56/100 of a second.

All in all, NUS team collected 5 medals: 2 gold, 1 silver and 2 bronze. Unfortunately, we were unable to maintain our 5th place in the overall institutional standing, finishing 6th out of 19 Singapore institutions.

Here are some photos of the event, courtesy of Qingsong's camera.

Guillem in the 400m freestyle event (Albertro is in lane 8 at the top of the picture, the two were super colse for the entire race)

Andrew Wee on his way to winning the 50m breaststroke event once again

Qingsong in the tough 200 Individual Medley event

Hengkek receiviing his winner's medal

Alberto receiving his 3rd place medal

Solid performance in Public Service Meeting 2014

TeamNUS successfully defended the 5th overall place in the Public Service Swim Meeting held on April, 26th 2014 at the Civil Service Club. In spite of some key absences, the 5-man contingent successfully fought back attempts of taking the 5th place by a number of other public organizations.

A big congratulations to all the swimmers! In the picture below (from left to right): Hengkek, Qingsong, Guillem, Alberto and Marcus.

A special mention to Hengkek (gold medal, 50m freestyle, again). A special mention and welcome back to the team to  Marcus (silver medal, 50m breaststroke). Recent addition to the team Guillem Riambau clocked an impressive 5:55 in the 400 m freestyle, securing precious points with the 4th place overall.

Some other pictures from the event (courtesy of Qingsong's camera)
Hengkek: dominating from the start!

Qingsong joined the event despite having completed the Kapas Marang one week ago: that's what I call dedication! Here is his breastroke

Guillem in the 400m freestyle

Marcus and Hengkek receiving their medal

Record 9 teamNUS finishers at Kapas-Marang Swimathon 2014

20 km record held hostage by religous authorities

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NUS staff Itsuko wins 2nd place in Tri-Factor 3K

Our staff swimmer Itsuko continues bringing athletic honors to NUS by finishing 2nd place in the veteran category of this year's Tri-Factor open water swim, with an impressive timing of 59 minutes.

Heavy medal score for teamNUS at Public Service Meet 2013

This year's Public Service Meet saw a great turnout for the NUS staff swimmers. 
Dedicated training efforts and high spirits during the meet were rewarded by the largest number of medals garnered by the men's team in the past 4 years (1 gold, 3 silver, 6 bronze). Especially cheerful was the senior's 4x50m freestyle relay team who narrowly beat their closest rivals to third place and bronze medals. Overall, teamNUS finished again in 5th place out of 17.

Clockwise from top left: Alberto in his favourite event, 400m freestyle; animated team discussions; Pepe swimming 50m backstroke; the medal-winning senior relay team; Andrew setting a new record over 50m breast; the 2013 teamNUS shining brightly.