PARIS – It was a race that she had waited three years for and on her Olympic debut, national swimmer Gan Ching Hwee found the calm to block out the noise. As she waited in the call room for her women’s 1,500m freestyle heat on July 30, the first race nerves were present...
PARIS – It was a race that she had waited three years for and on her Olympic debut, national swimmer Gan Ching Hwee found the calm to block out the noise.
With the 21-year-old in the zone, she clocked 16min 10.13sec to rewrite her previous national record 16:10.61 set in June at the Singapore National Swimming Championships, topping Heat 1 in the process. “I just came in here to swim free, loose, be happy, enjoy every minute of it, which I did and I’m very happy with the result.”
On July 30, Gan not only achieved her goal of topping her heat, which comprised herself, Malta’s Sasha Gatt and Chile’s Kristel Kobrich, but also surpassed her expectations with a new national mark. While she just missed out on the 1,500m free final, Gan still has two more events coming up – the 800m free, which begins on Aug 2, and the women’s 4x100m medley relay the day after.
“It’s just a very special thing, a bit surreal at times. I’ll take some time after the Games to really process this experience, but now I’m going to go out there and do my best.”
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