May 15th, 2012 | 
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This meet serves as a qualifying meet for the American swimmers to place for their Olympic Trials starting June 25th and for Anderson Lim this meet was his second meet (1st was in March) trying to qualify for the Brunei Olympic Team for London 2012.Complete results:
200m free: 2.05.63 (new National Age group and OPEN record, previous record was 2.06.40 by Anderson Lim from 25 July, World Championships Shanghai)
100m fly: 1.01.93 (new National Age Group record, previous record was Anderson Lim 1.03.04 from 11 October 2011)
100m free: 57.03 (new National Age Group record, previous record was 57.24 by Anderson Lim from 18 March 2012)
50m free: 26.87 (new personal best-time)
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The LTS-BRUNEI is designed around 7 different levels, where level 1 is the beginners level where a minimum time investment of 2 x 30 min. of swimming per week, for 3-4 months will be required to be able to pass the test. Its goes all the way up to level 7, which we call the MINI-SQUAD, and this is basically the first stage of competitive swimming, a time investment of 3 x 60 min. of swimming per week is required here to pass the test/to achieve the certificate.
For now, not all the schools, clubs, and coaches are adopting the LTS-BRUNEI system yet and that is understandable. The system in relatively new, (operational since January 2012) However, everyone, of any background, from anywhere in Brunei is able to test themselves, free of charge, during these centralized certification events.
After breaking 6 National Swimming Records during the Singapore Grand Prix last week (27-29 April 2012) Christian Nikles (14) broke another 2 records this weekend during the 55th Malaysian Open Swimming Championships in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (3-6 May 2012). This FINA certified meet is attracting swimmers from a variety of nations (there were 11 countries entered in the Swimming Competition) (Australia, Botswana, Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Iran, Malaysia, Singapore, Sri Lanka & Thailand)
On Sunday morning May 13th 2012 the first centralized LTS-Brunei (Learn to swim) certificate swimming for Level 1) will be organized in the Berekas National Swimming Pool.
Labuan – Brunei swimmer Mohd Bahrin Shah Behrom Shem, 19, representing MICIA Swimming Team, won second runner-up in the men’s open category of the Labuan Cross Channel Swimming Challenge 2012. Clocking a time of 1:34:57.84, he won a cash prize of RM1500 last Saturday.
The men’s open category was won by a swimmer from Sabah with a time of 1:07:57.83. He received a prize of RM2,500. The first runner-up was a swimmer from Labuan who clocked 1:15:00.22 and received RM2,000.
Fifteen participants took part in the men’s open category.
The competition is jointly organised by Ministry of Tourism Malaysia and Labuan Aquatic Association in conjunction with Malaysia Water Festival, Labuan International Sea Challenge 2012.
The competition started and ended at Labuan International Sea Sport Complex covering a distance of 5.4km from starting point to return (Papan Island) for both Men and Women Open categories. The Junior Boys/ Girls covered a distance of 2.7km (One way – Papan Island – starting point).
Bahrin who started swimming at the age of five years and been in the swimming scene for 14 years said, “I am impressed and happy with my achievement for this event. And I would like to say thank you to my family and friends who supported me. Not to forget, the MICIA Swimming team”.
–Courtesy of Borneo Bulletin
Singapore Grand Prix 27-29 April 2012, 7 new National Swimming records broken (3 OPEN and 4 Age Group record)
I hope people will appreciating competitions like this for what they are. We take part in overseas competitions to give swimmers the opportunity to compete against other fast swimmers and to record their times. A swimmer like Christian Nikles is here to compete against other fast swimmers, to race fast and to record his times. Should any of these times be fast enough to be nominated or qualified for another competition or even Olympic Games, great! But should it not be fast enough (Anderson Lim is the other swimmer in the race for an Olympic ticket, Anderson trains and lives in Florida, USA) then he will still have done a great job (regarding his National Age-group and OPEN records in 50 & 100m freestyle) and he can be proud of that. The same for Anderson Lim and all other swimmers for this meet and other meets to come, either in Asia or in the USA. Don’t let anybody else make you believe that things are different. The life of a swimmer is really simple, you dive in the water, you swim up and down and you hope it is fast enough and it is faster then you swam before, that’s it ! (according to Eric Landa, National Aquatics Headcoach Brunei Darussalam)Below are the final results statistics of the 20th 20th B.A.G. (Brunei Age Group Swimming Championships) held 12-15 April 2012 as this was prepared by the B.A.G. organizing committee:
Age Group 6-8:BAG 2012 6-8 statistics
Age Group 9-10: BAG 2012 9-10 Statistics
Age Group 11-12: BAG 2012 11-12 Statistics
Age Group 13-14: BAG 2012 13-14 Statistics
Age Group 15-17: BAG 2012 15-17 Statistics
Age Group 18 and over: BAG 2012 18+ statistics
Complete results, all AG: BAG 2012 Complete results all AG
Drizzling rain doesn’t stop people from attending the 2nd swimtalentday
Also during the day there was a centralized dryland session for all swimmers attending and for the parents there were lectures on Sports Psychology and Sports Nutrition by specialists from SMRC (Sports Medicine and Research Centre, situated at the national football stadium)
Historical 30 National Records broken during 20th BAG (Brunei Age Group Championships Swimming) 12-15 April 2012
Photo from left to right: 6 young Bruneian swimmers together breaking a total of 30 (!) National records: Jayden Yong (8 years old), Christian Nikles (14 year old), Joshua Yong (11 years old), Hamizah Ahmad (16 years old), Ashley Chai (10 years old), Muhd. Isa Ahmad (14 years old)
2nd SWIMTALENTDAY on Sunday morning 22 April 2012
On Sunday morning 22 April 2012 BASA is organizing its 2nd SWIMTALENTDAY. This day will be for all interested people, young and old who would like to join a fun morning filled with aquatics sports.
The program:
9:00-9:30: registration of swimmers/parents (ALL)
9:30-10:00: demo swimming, demo synchro, demo diving, demo water polo
10:30-11:00: swimmers join swimming, synchro, diving, waterpolo for a free lesson. Parents can join a lecture about SPORT NUTRITION
11:00-11:30: all swimmers join for a group dry-land session. Parents can join a lecture about SPORTS PSYCHOLOGY
11:30-12:00: closing
Bring a swimsuit and something to drink/eat. See you on Sunday April 22nd 2012
