Yee Chun Leong
BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN
NATIONAL swimmer Haziq Ismail had a great weekend at the Thailand (SC) Time Trials after swimming his way to three national records and two personal bests.
The 20-year-old started his campaign by breaking the 400m freestyle record with a time of 4:19.75 on Friday.
Anderson Lim was the previous holder with a time of 4:19.82.
Haziq followed that up with a new records in the 800m and 1500m freestyle events the next day.
He completed the former with a time of 8:59.42 and managed 16:44.20 for the latter.
His two personal bests in Bangkok came in the 100m and 200m freestyle events.
Haziq shaved off 0.02s from his previous best in the 100m freestyle with a time of 56.30s.
He showed big improvement in the 200m event as he clocked 2:00.08 smashing his previous best of 2:05.54.
Haziq, who has been in the FINA Thanyapura Development Programme for almost three years, never expected such a good outing at the Oct 22-24 meet.
"I never expected it since we didn't really taper for this meet and that our last competition was back in October last year," said Haziq in an interview with BruSports News on Monday.
"It was a good feeling setting those new records and after training here (in Thailand) for almost three years, I feel that I've improved a lot," he added.
When asked on what was the highlight of the meet, Haziq replied: "Setting a new national record for the 1500m freestyle event because it awarded the highest FINA points."
Next on the calendar for Haziq will be in a long course competition at Krabi, Thailand from November 5-7.
"I'm looking forward to the next event and I hope that I can achieve my target of setting more new personal bests," he concluded.
