Carmen provides only splash in the pool on third day

KUALA LUMPUR: On a day when nothing went right for the Malaysian swimming camp, Carmen Lim provided the only splash in the pool by winning the women’s 50m Freestyle S8 gold medal in record breaking fashion, at the National Aquatic Centre in Bukit Jalil, here today.
Lim produced an excellent performance, clocking in at 36.48s to comfortably beat Thailand’s Thongbai Chaisawas (39.56s) and Indonesia’s Nor Aimah (42.28s), en route to setting a new games' record, thus erasing her own mark of 39.14s that was set during the 2015 Singapore edition.
The win made up for her near miss in the 100m Backstroke S8, when she lost the gold to Indonesia’s Gusmalayanti by a mere 0.50s.
Earlier, Zul Amirul Sidi and Jamery Siga contributed a silver and bronze in the men’s 100m Backstroke S5 after clocking 1:41.84s and 1:46.80s, respectively, while Vietnam’s Vo Thanh Tung took the gold with a time of 1:26.77s that beat Zul Amirul’s previous record of 1:36.80s.
Another swimmer from the Malaysian camp, Jin Ping Ting, lost the gold medal race to Indonesia’s Muhammad Bejita, while Anas Zul Amirul Sidi who had won a gold medal on Tuesday, ended with the silver in the men’s 50m Freestyle S14, while Mohd Adib Iqbal Abdullah picked up the bronze in the same event. — Bernama