News

2008.0503

NTNU Athletes Have Fun and Break Records During Water Sports Day

By Joanna Tung and Jocy Su Campus Reporters Freshman Tsai Yi-chuan (蔡怡娟) became highlighted in the pool because she won the gold medal of the 50m butterfly and she also set a new National Taiwan Normal University (NTNU) record of 29.14 seconds. "Honestly, when I dived into the water, I simply did my best to swim as fast as possible.  I did not think too much,” Tsai said.  “Setting up new NTNU record will be a great encouragement to me.  I will try to break that record again when I swim for the National Intercollegiate Athletic Games next week.” In addition to Tsai, her senior schoolmate Chang Liao Yu-hsun (張廖妤洵) also set a new record for the event, when she finished 100 meters by butterfly within 67.54 seconds. To maintain certain equal opportunities, all the match-ups were divided into professional groups and non-professional groups.  All physical education related major students were required to participate in the professional groups Freshman Chiang Hsin-hung (江信宏) finished 50 meters with breaststroke within 29.92 seconds, which is also the new event record. In addition to physical education students, Athletic Performance Department students also showed their capabilities to set new records for NTNU. Junior Hsu Chia-wei (徐佳偉) broke the record of male’s 50m butterfly and set a new record of 26.36 seconds. His classmate Cheng Kuo-hui (鄭國輝) conquered male’s 100m butterfly instead, when he finished the race within 57.84 seconds, also a record breaker. The 500m relay for the professional group was also another highlight during the event, only it became a “physical education department only” game, now that participants were all its students. For males, sophomores and freshmen were competing for the championship and sophomores arrived at the finish line by close call of 1.48 seconds and took the gold medals home. For women, seniors took the lead from the begging until the end while freshmen and juniors were competing for the silver medals, which eventually belonged to freshmen. Non-professional swimmers also caught everybody’s eyes by their record-breaking performances in the water. Wu Szu- pu (吳偲菩) of Department of Health Promotion and Health Education set a new event record of 17.81 seconds when she finished 21 meters by breaststroke.  Lin Feng-ching (林峰慶) of Education Department and Liu Jen-hao (劉人豪) of Department of Industrial Education were the gold medalist and the silver medalist for the male’s 21m breaststroke.  Lin finished within 11.8 seconds while Liu finished within 12.75 seconds.  Both of them set new event records.