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Three gold medals for Brunei at ASEAN Para Games

Three gold medals for Brunei at ASEAN Para Games
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BRUNEI will bring home a haul of three gold, three silver and two bronze medals from the 12th ASEAN Para Games in Cambodia. All of the country's podium finishes came from athletics at the Morodok Techo National Stadium in Phnom Penh. Nor Hensan Hj Mataha was the biggest winner…
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Bruneian swimmers make splash in Miri

Bruneian swimmers make splash in Miri
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN IT was a medal rush for our Bruneian swimmers at the 22nd Miri Age Group Swimming Competition 2023 over the weekend. Sharmeen Md Mharvin and Matthias Jordan Narcis were the biggest winners after bagging the best swimmer award in their respective age groups. Sharmeen, competing under the banner of…
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Swimming: Relay team break record ahead of SEA Games

Swimming: Relay team break record ahead of SEA Games
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE Brunei swim team punched their ticket to the 32nd SEA Games in Cambodia after beating the 4x100m freestyle national record on Wednesday night. The quartet of Christian Nikles, Zeke Chan, Nur Haziq Ismail and last minute addition Muhammad Isa Ahmad completed the event with a time of 3:40.75.…
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Chan ends Brunei’s SEA AG medal drought

Chan ends Brunei’s SEA AG medal drought
Yee Chun Leong BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN THE future looks bright for Brunei swimming with the emergence of Zeke Chan. The 15-year-old ended Brunei's medal drought at the SEA Age Group Swimming Championships in a decade by winning two silver medals in Kuala Lumpur last month. He finished on the podium for both the boys 14-15…
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Nikles glad to be back in competition

Nikles glad to be back in competition
Yee Chun LeongBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN NATIONAL swimmer Christian Nikles is delighted to be back in competition after contesting at the recently concluded 15th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Abu Dhabi. The tournament was the first in over two years for Nikles since the FINA World Cup in Doha in October 2019. He clocked a…
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Muis sets two national short course records at FINA meet

Muis sets two national short course records at FINA meet
Yee Chun LeongBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN NATIONAL swimmer Muhammad Isa Ahmad swam his way to two new national short course records at the recently concluded 15th FINA World Swimming Championships (25m) in Abu Dhabi, UAE. The Tokyo 2020 Olympian completed the 100m breaststroke with a time of 1:04.09 beating his old time of 1:04.45, which he…
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Haziq swims to three national short course records

Haziq swims to three national short course records
Yee Chun LeongBANDAR 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…
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Muis thanks Brunei for support

Muis thanks Brunei for support
Yee Chun LeongBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN NATIONAL swimmer Muhammad Isa Ahmad will savour his experience at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics. The 23-year-old contested in Heat 1 of the men's 100m breaststroke event and finished with a time of 1:08.65 at the Tokyo Aquatics Centre on Saturday. His personal best stands at 1:06.40 which he set during…
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Brunei athletes unfazed by different Olympics

Brunei athletes unfazed by different Olympics
NO spectators at the Tokyo 2020 Olympics? No problem. Last week the International Olympic Council and Tokyo 2020 Olympics organising committee announced that there will be no fans allowed at the Games. Our pair of Bruneian athletes - swimmer Muhammad Isa Ahmad and sprinter Md Noor Firdaus Ar-Rasyid Hj Md Idris - is unfazed by…
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Tokyo-bound: Brunei to send 2 athletes to Olympics

Tokyo-bound: Brunei to send 2 athletes to Olympics
Yee Chun LeongBANDAR SERI BEGAWAN BRUNEI is sending two athletes to contest in two sports at the Tokyo Olympics. This was confirmed during a flag handing over ceremony at the VIP Room, 1st Floor of the Hassanal Bolkiah National Stadium in Berakas on Saturday morning. His Royal Highness Prince Hj Sufri Bolkiah, the president of…
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