Xiandi Chua booked a ticket to the world short course championships in the women’s 200-meter backstroke after hitting the qualifying standard in the World Aquatics Swimming World Cup 2024 in Singapore over the weekend.

Chua clocked 2 minutes and 9.71 seconds to eclipse the Qualifying B standard of 2:09.93 in her event for the said world tilt happening in Budapest, Hungary next month.

She came close to advancing to the finals after finishing ninth overall in the heats out of 22 tankers, just a hairline from last qualifier Xeniya Ignatova of Kazakhstan, who timed 2:09.32.

American Regan Smith, who topped the heats, eventually captured the gold medal with a new world record of 1:58.83. Anastasiya Shkurdai (2:01.63) and Australia’s Iona Anderson (2:01.98) grabbed silver and bronze, respectively.

Meanwhile, Jasmine Mojdeh finished 15^th in the women’s 100m butterfly with a time of 1:03.51.

Metin Mahmutoglu (24.11sec) and Joshua Ang (24.12sec), for their part, landed 24^th and 25^th, respectively in the men’s 50m fly, while Lucio Cuyong (2:18.57) placed 20^th in the men’s 200m breaststroke.

Miranda Renner struggled in the women’s 100m freestyle and finished at 45^th with 1:03.83, even as Albert Jose Amaro II (1:54.74) and Raymund Paloma (1:55.90) tumbled at 52^nd and 54^th, respectively, in the men’s 200m free.