Swimming sensation Shannon Tan smashes Sukma record three times in a day
Selangor's 15-year-old swimmer broke the games record in the women's 200m butterfly en route to two gold medals.
Fifteen-year-old swimmer Shannon Tan Yan Qing smashed the Sukma record three times in a single day during the 2026 Malaysia Games, contributing to Selangor's two swimming gold medals. In the women's 200m butterfly heats, she set a new meet record of 2:15.77s, breaking the previous mark by Sarawak's Hii Siew Siew from 2012. In the final, she further improved her time to 2:15.13s, lowering her own meet record for the second time in a single day, and came within 0.83s of Khoo Cai Lin's national record of 2:14.30s set in 2009.
Shannon then helped the hosts win gold in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay, breaking another Sukma record with a time of 3:54.54s, eclipsing the previous meet record of 3:55.84 set by Selangor last year.
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