BUKIT JALIL: National athlete Wong Fu Kang does not take the challenge posed by his competitors lightly at the 2018 Insitutions of Higher Learning Games (SUKIPT) even though he takes to the pool as the top swimmer at the meet.
The swimmer who won two gold medals in the 100m breaststroke and the men’s 4x100m medley relay pointed out that all the competing swimmers trained hard before the Games and are more than capable of challenging to win medals.
"I feel proud to be able to represent Taylor’s University and win two golds today (Sunday). I set myself a target of six gold medals at this edition of SUKIPT,” said Fu Kang.
"However I cannot take it easy here because all the athletes train to perform and to do their best. For me this Games is also a warm up for bigger events to come after this.”
Apart from winning gold, the 19-year-old athlete also broke the Games record in both the events that he won at the National Aquatics Center in Bukit Jalil.
For the 100m breaststroke, Fu Kang recorded a time of 1 minute 04.47s, erasing the previous record set by Shaun Yap Kah Choon of Help University (1:04.77s) that was set during the 2014 edition.
Fu’s speed in the water also enabled his teammates in rewriting the Games record for the 4x100m medley relay event as they clocked a record time of 4 minutes 0.52s to better the previous record of 4:03.73s set by the Universiti Teknologi Mara (UiTM) swimmers.
In other developments, the athlete who hails from Johor said that he is now working hard to ensure that he qualifies for the upcoming Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast Australia.
At SUKIPT, swimming which is into the second day of competition offers 14 gold medals.
