KUALA LUMPUR: Youngster Lew Yih Wey shone brightest for Malaysia with a record-breaking effort to earn a debut appearance in the Beijing Olympics after an action-packed first day of the Malaysian Open swimming championships at the National Aquatic Centre in Bukit Jalil yesterday.
The Negri-born Yih Wey won the women’s 400m individual medley in 4:50.52, erasing Siow Yi Ting’s five-year-old national mark of 4:51.01 set in the Vietnam SEA Games in 2003.
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