Swimmer Hoe Yean makes Universiade history
The 22-year-old clocked 3:47.38s in the 400m freestyle to slash almost a second off his previous best time of 3:48.36s achieved at the Australian Championships in April last year.
Hoe Yean also became only the second Malaysian swimmer (Jeffrey Ong won the men's 1,500m freestyle silver in 1991 in England) to stand on the podium in Universiade history.
Nikolai Kolesnikov, swimming under the Individual Neutral Athletes banner, took gold in 3:46.66s and American Ryan James Erisman Jr claimed the bronze in 3:47.52s.
Hoe Yean will swim in the men's 200m freestyle today.
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