SWIMMER Lynette Lim bagged the first gold in swimming for Singapore yesterday.
She clocked an impressive 4min 14.25sec for the girls' 400m freestyle final at the Singapore Sports School.
It was more than seven seconds faster than her closest competitor, Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn from Thailand, who clocked 4:21.63 and had to settle for silver.
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Lynette's winning time is close to a four-second improvement from her results in the heats yesterday morning.
The beaming 17-year-old said: 'I really didn't expect to win. I just went in and gave everything.
'Stephanie Au from Hong Kong (who finished third) had previously clocked a much better time than I did .
'I guess I just got lucky.'
Lynette also bettered her own personal-best timing of 4:16.42, set last year.
If 'lucky' is how Lynette describes such a slicing off her personal best, The New Paper wonders how much faster she could have gone if she didn't need any luck.
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