2008 NAT’L PALARO
NCR dominates swim events,
Cebu boy named fastest athlete

PUERTO PRINCESA CITY – National Capital Region picked up six more golds in swimming yesterday, even as Cebu City's Lindley Fran Navaja emerged as the fastest athlete of the Palarong Pambansa at the Ramon V. Mitra Sports Complex here.

Valenzuela resident Dorothy Hong, an incoming junior at Philippine Christian School of Tomorrow, erased the decade-old secondary girls' 100m backstroke record of former national team standout Lizza Danila to typify NCR's dominance at the pool.

As lead swimmer of NCR's victorious 4x100m medley relay squad, Hong, 14, clocked 1 minute, 7.94 seconds to eclipse Danila's mark of 1:08.00 in Bacolod City during the Centennial Palaro in 1998.