Asean Para Games: Singapore’s Yip Pin Xiu breaks world record

SMU undergraduate Yip Pin Xiu broke a world record on the final day of the five-day swimming competition at the ASEAN Para Games. She executed an almost textbook-like swim in the women’s 50m backstroke event at the OCBC Aquatics Centre to stop the clock at 1min 01.61secs and clinch gold in the women’s 50m backstroke S5 event. Yip’s swim erased the previous world mark of 1:03.00 in the S2 class by China’s Feng Yazhu, who set the mark at the 2012 Paralympics in London. She said that the entire team is very motivated and remains pretty much on track to Rio (2016 Paralympic Games).