Hoe Yean clocks season's best at World Championships
Hoe Yean clocked a season's best one minute and 48.10 seconds to place 31st overall from 59 swimmers in the men's 200 metre freestyle preliminaries, bettering the 1:48.68s he clocked at the World University Games in Berlin earlier this month.
The time, however, was not enough to see him make the top-16 cut for the semi-finals at the OCBC Aquatics Centre.
Welson Sim's 1:47.36s from 2017 remains the Malaysian national record in the event.
A travel-fatigued Hoe Yean, who arrived in Singapore from Berlin late on Saturday, placed 28th in the 400m freestyle preliminaries yesterday on 3:51.11s which was some way off the 3:47.38s (national record) he clocked en route to silver at WUG.
Phee Jinq En opted to sit out the women's 100m breaststroke event today due to a hip issue. She is scheduled to compete in the 50m breaststroke on Sunday (Aug 2).
Malaysia Aquatics secretary-general Andy Low said: "She has a slight injury but is preparing for her favourite 50m (breastrstroke) event later this week," said Andy when contacted today.
In diving, Nurqayyum Nazim-Yong Rui Jie settled for 21st from 26 pairs in the men's 3m springboard synchronised preliminaries.
The duo's routines scored 44.40, 42.00, 57.60, 66.96, 56.10 and 35.70 for a 302.76 total. Only the top-eight pairs made the cut for the final.
Luck was not on Pandelela Rinong-Lee Yiat Qing's side in the women's 10m platform synchronised as they were forced to withdraw after scoring 43.80 and 43.20 in the first two dives due to an injury sustained by Pandelela.
It is understood that Pandelela had tweaked her shoulder and withdrew as a precautionary measure. The 32-year-old is scheduled to compete in the 10m platform individual event on Wednesday.
Pandelela, Yiat Qing, Elvis Clement and Enrique Harold had competed in the mixed 3m and 10m team event on Saturday, finishing 16th from 21 teams.
Hoe Yean will next compete in the men's 800m freestyle while Andrew Goh will see action in the men's 50m breaststroke tomorrow.
Elvis-Enrique will take to the pool for the men's 10m platform synchronised event tomorrow.
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