Invite to MILO / AKL Age Group Swimming Championships 2025

Akuatik Kuala Lumpur (AKL) is pleased to extend invitation to all Affiliates of AKL to participate in the MILO / AKL Age Group Swimming Championships 2025 to be held at the National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sports City, Bukit Jalil.

MEET INFORMATION

Date : 16th - 19th January, 2025 (Thurs - Sun)

Venue : National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Sports City, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur

Rules : World Aquatics Rules apply

Date of Age Reckoning :31st December, 2025

Entry Closing Date : 3rd January, 2025 (Fri), before 5:00 pm.

Team Managers Meeting : 17th January, 2025 (Wed) at 3:00 pm.

AFFILIATION FEES 2025

We take this opportunity to remind all affiliates that the entry to the above competition in 2025 may only be processed upon your payment of the annual affiliation fees to the association. The annual affiliation fee is due payable on 1 January, 2025 as follows :

3.1 Club – RM200.00

3.2 Associate – RM100.00

3.3 School – RM 50.00

Please download INVITE PACKAGE.

We eagerly await your participations. 

Organising Committee

AKL Age Group 2025

Invite to 1st KL Klasik Invitational Friendly Swim Meet 2024

 

1st KL Klasik Invitational Friendly Swim Meet 2024

 

Greetings from Kuala Lumpur Aquatics!

Kuala Lumpur Aquatics (KLA) is pleased to extend invitation to all swimmers of affiliated clubs of MAS and clubs/schools affiliated to KLA to participate in this inaugural ‘1^st KL Klasik Invitational Friendly Swim Meet 2024’ to be held at National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sport City, Bukit Jalil.

 1.         MEET INFORMATION:

           a)         Date                             :  17^th – 19^th May, 2024  (Fri, Sat & Sun)

b)         Venue                          :  National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sports City, Bukit Jalil

c)         Organizer                     :  Kuala Lumpur Aquatics (KLA)          

d)         Rules                            :  World Aquatics Rules

e)         Age of Reckoning         :  As of 31^st December, 2024

f)          Team Manager Meeting :  3:00 pm, 16^th May, 2024

g)         Entries                           : No limit to the number of swimmers or events                                       

h)         Closing Date                 :  5.00pm on Friday, 3^rd May, 2024.

2.         INFO PACKAGE

Please download Bulletin & Info Package 

i)          Information Bulletin

ii)         Order of Events

iii)        Hy-Tek Event File (to be imported into Team Manager software only)

 3.         CORRESPONDENCE

All correspondence or queries should be directed to:

Organising Committee

Kuala Lumpur Aquatics

Jalan Yaacob Latif, Bandar Tun Razak, 56000 Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Tel: 6-03-9131 6353

Email: praklumpur@gmail.com, prakl.swimcom@gmail.com

Organising Committeee

1st KL Klasik Invitational

INVITE TO PRAKL AGE GROUP SWIMMING CHAMPIONSHIPS 2024

 Persatuan Renang Amatur Kuala Lumpur (PRAKL) is pleased to extend invitation to all Affiliates of PRAKL to participate in the MILO / PRAKL Age Group Swimming Championships 2024 to be held at the National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur Sports City, Bukit Jalil.

MEET INFORMATION

Date : 19th January – 21st January, 2024 (Fri-Sun)

Venue : National Aquatic Centre, Kuala Lumpur

Sports City, Bukit Jalil, Kuala Lumpur

Rules : World Aquatics Rules apply

Date of Age Reckoning :31st December, 2024

Entry Closing Date : 5th January, 2024 (Fri), before 5:00 pm.

Team Managers Meeting : 18th January, 2024 (Thurs) at 3:00 pm.

AFFILIATION FEES 2024

We take this opportunity to remind all affiliates that the entry to the above competition in 2024 may only be processed upon your payment of the annual affiliation fees to the association. The annual affiliation fee is due payable on 1 January, 2024 as follows :

3.1 Club – RM200.00

3.2 Associate – RM100.00

3.3 School – RM 50.00

Organising Committee

KL Swimmers did us proud in 31st SEA GAMES 2022 IN HANOI

 

KL swimmers once again brought glory to the association as they have performed their best during the 31st SEA Games 2022 in Hanoi, Vietnam.

Representing Malaysia, Steve Khiew won Gold in 200m freestyle event with a new PB of 1:47.81 upsetting Singaporean swimmer Quah Zheng Wen who came  in second and Viet Phuoc Hoang Quy who came in third.

Steve's previous PB of 1:48.77 was clocked during the 64th Malaysia Open Swimming Championships in March 2022.

Steve Khiew wrapped up the 31st SEA Games 2022 in Hanoi with 1 Gold , 3 Silver (200m back, 400m free & 4x200m free relay) & 1 bronze (800m free). A multi-coloured achievement and KL is proud of of Steve.

Meanwhile, Bryan Leong, flown from his university in UK direct to Hanoi to join the swimming contingent for SEA Games 2022. He swam the 50m free event with a commendable timing, despite not being able to position himself on the podium, he broke the Malaysia national record for 50m free event with a new time of 23.09.

Sebastian Soon, also did his personal best times in SEA Games as he swam to new PBs of 15:39.87 in the 1500m freestyle and 8:12.64 in 800m freestyle event.

Congratulations to the trio. Well done !

 

Most numbers of KL swimmers qualified to SEA Games from 64th Malaysia Open Swimming Championships 2022

The most prestigious swim meet in the country, the Malaysia Open Swimming, has finally come to an end last weekend after 2 years missing its bliss because of the current pandemic situation. Last year, the meet was only opened to those in the national squad in a quarantine-based training. 

The 64th Malaysia Open Swimming Championship held from 3rd March 2022 to 6th March 2022 at National Aquatic Centre, KL Sport City, Bukit Jalil was sanctioned by FINA as the qualifying meet to 31st South East Asian Games 2022 in Vietnam and 19th FINA World Championships 2022 in Budapest. Despite the absence of participation from foreign swimmers, the four days meet registered a total number of 218 local swimmers who represented their respective states.

24 female and 37 male enthusiastic WPKL swimmers took part in the meet. Apart from several outstanding results achieved by WPKL swimmers particularly from our swimmers who train with the national team, our young swimmers did pretty well too. 

All eyes were on Khiew Hoe Yean or Steve,  waiting to witness him qualify into SEA Games and World Champ and to break some records, even though he restricted himself to only individual 4 events, as advised by his coach Chris Martin to concentrate on qualifying to the major games.

Steve made a clean sweep in his events earning 6 gold for WPKL team, including the relays. He clocked 3:50:77 for his 400m freestyle on day one to beat the A-SEA Games and B-World Champ qualifying time. 

Steve Khiew was ahead of his competitors in all freestyle events

On the following days, Steve was unstoppable winning another 3 individual gold medals for his 100m freestyle (new PB of  50:35), 200m freestyle (new PB of 1:48:77) and 1500m freestyle (new PB of 15:30:90). Not only he broke the 1500m freestyle meet record but he also qualified for B-SEA Games and B-World Champ time for all of the events.

Steve Khiew proved to be the vital anchor swimmers in WPKL relay team to win the 4x100m Medley relay with his teammates Khiew Tze Yean, Jayden Tan and Yap Min Shun. On day three, he led team WPKL 4x100m freestyle relay team together with Yap Min Shun, Khiew Tze Yean and Gabriel Francis McCartan to win another gold for WPKL.

Jayden Tan another rising star for WPKL team showed that he is good in all strokes by improving his 400m IM time to 4:29:16 making a cut for B-SEA Games. He also contributed 1 silver and 1 bronze for WPKL as he came second behind Steve Khiew in 1500m freestyle and third place in 400m freestyle event.

Jayden Tan

Meanwhile, Sebastian Soon, who has just returned to training recently swam some decent times to win 2 bronze in 200IM & 400 IM events. 

Sebastian Soon

To complete the 10 gold medal haul for WPKL team, Chong, Xin Lin won 3 gold in her 50m backstroke, 200m backstroke and 100m backstroke. Her new PB of 1:05:57 for 100m backstroke was just a half of second shy of the B-SEA Games qualifying time, an awesome time for a 14 year old girl.  

WPKL team positioned itself second with an impressive 30 medals comprising of 10 gold, 9 silver and 11 bronze.

The 64th Malaysia Open Swimming Championships results showed WPKL swimmers have a great potential to gear up and achieve more outstanding results for WPKL team in the upcoming SUKMA and MIAG meets, especially the younger athletes. Our continuous support in the state development program will surely help these swimmers emerge as our future hope in swimming as our main objective is to produce as many talents as possible who can compete at the high level competitions.

We also congratulate the 4 KL swimmers who have made the cut to SEA Games Aquatic Squad, namely, Steve Khiew, Jayden Tan, Sebastian Soon and Bryan Leong.

Great job guys and well done to all WPKL swimmers!               

 

Photo Credit : Mr Clement Chew

The NST : Khiew leads MS flagship

 

Rising star Khiew Hoe Yean has dominated the pools in Malaysia. Now the challenge is for him to shine at the Hanoi Sea Games from May 12-23.

The 19-year-old has been making waves locally over the past two years, even outshining two-time Olympian Welson Sim along the way.

And while Welson is seen to be on the decline, the Kuala Lumpur-born Hoe Yean, at such a young age, is already a holder of three national records: 800m freestyle, 200m backstroke and 400m individual medley.

His 200m backstroke record is the most impressive one, as he clocked 2:00.08 to smash Alex Lim's previous mark of 2:00.94 set at the Asian Games in 1998.

Hoe Yean has also proven himself to be the new power in the freestyle — once the domain of Welson — sweeping four gold medals — 100m, 200m, 400m and 1500m — at last week's Malaysian Open.

And now the stage is set for Hoe Yean to spearhead the 14-member Malaysian swimming team at the Hanoi Sea Games. He will have to take on formidable rivals from Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand.

At the age of 17, Hoe Yean made his debut in the 2019 Sea Games, winning two bronze: in the 200m backstroke and 2x200m freestyle.

Hoe Yean is only one of three Malaysian swimmers (with Welson and Phee Jinq En) selected for the games under category A. The other 11 swimmers going under category B are Jayden Tan, Job Tan, Ananda Lim, Hii Puong Wei, Arvin Shaun Singh Chalal, Ng Jing Fu, Sebastian Soon, Lau Zheng Yong, Bryan Leong (men), Alicia Li Ann Soosai and Goh Chia Tong. Under category B, the national association will fund their expenses but are reimbursed by the National Sports Council if they win a medal.

Yesterday, Malaysian Swimming (MS) also announced the full list of divers for the Sea Games. Leading the team will be two-time Olympic medallist Pandelela Rinong, and she will be joined by Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Wendy Ng, Ong Ker Ying and Kimberly Bong.

The male divers are Chew Yiwei, Ooi Tze Liang, Syafiq Puteh, Jellson Jabillin, Hanis Nazirul Jaya Surya, Enrique MacCartney Harold and Bertrand Rhodict.

Pandelela is set to partner Dhabitah in the women's 10m platform synchro especially with the latter having expressed an intention to return to platform diving.

"For diving, it is our gold mine and we would love to defend our gold medals," said MS secretary-general Mae Chen.

"But we have some new combinations, especially for the 10m synchro events, so we will gauge their progress as the dates draw closer.

"As for swimming, we really just want to do better than what we achieved at the 2019 Sea Games."

At the 2019 edition in the Philippines, Malaysia swept all four gold medals in diving. Malaysia also collected two gold from swimming through Jinq En.

SEA GAMES AQUATICS SQUAD

DIVING — Men: Chew Yiwei, Ooi Tze Liang, Syafiq Puteh, Jellson Jabillin, Hanis Nazirul Jaya Surya, Enrique MacCartney Harold and Bertrand Rhodict

Women: Pandelela Rinong, Nur Dhabitah Sabri, Wendy Ng, Ong Ker Ying, Kimberly Bong

SWIMMING — Men: Khiew Hoe Yean, Welson Sim, Jayden Tan, Job Tan, Ananda Lim, Hii Puong Wei, Arvin Shaun Singh Chalal, Ng Jing Fu, Sebastian Soon, Lau Zheng Yong, Bryan Leong.

Women: Phee Jinq En, Alicia Li Ann Soosai, Goh Chia Tong.

The Star : Chance for Hoe Yean to make big splash at SEA Games

Medal prospects: Khiew Hoe Yean, Phee Jing En (inset, left) and Welson Sim (inset) are going for the Vietnam SEA Games under Category A.

 
PETALING JAYA: After dominating the pool in his backyard, it is time for promising swimmer Khiew Hoe Yean to rise to the challenge at the Vietnam SEA Games.

The 19-year-old is one of only three swimmers who will head to the SEA Games under Category A.

The other two are former Games champion Welson Sim and defending women’s breaststroke winner Phee Jinq En.

The 19-year-old Hoe Yean has come to the fore in the last two years after putting the more accomplished two-time Olympian Welson in the shade.

The Kuala Lumpur-born swimmer now holds three national records – the 800m freestyle, 200m backstroke and the 400m individual medley.

The 200m backstroke record was the most impressive as he clocked 2:00.08 to beat Alex Lim Keng Liat’s previous record of 2:00.94 that was posted when he won silver in the Asian Games in 1998.

Hoe Yean has also proven to be the new ace in freestyle, sweeping four gold medals – 100m, 200m, 400m and 1,500m – at the Malaysian Open last week.

He is certainly the face of Malaysian swimming at the Games as he leads a total of 14 swimmers for the biennial regional meet.

But it will certainly be a tough challenge for Hoe Yean as Singapore, Vietnam and Thailand all have competent swimmers to challenge for honours.

The other 11 swimmers selected by Malaysian Swimming (MS) – Jayden Tan, Job Tan, Ananda Lim, Hii Puong Wei, Arvin Shaun Singh Chalal, Ng Jing Fu, Sebastian Soon, Lau Zheng Yong, Bryan Leong (men), Alicia Li Ann Soosai and Goh Chia Tong will be competing under Category B.

Under this category, the association will fund their athletes’ expenses but will be reimbursed if the athletes win a medal.

“We really want to do better than what we achieved at the 2019 Games,” said MS secretary Mae Chen.

In the Philippines, Malaysia finished with two gold medals courtesy of Jinq En and will surely be hoping to improve on their 2-2-3 haul from 2019.