HA NOI (VNS)—Vietnamese Nguyen Thi Anh Vien was not successful at the Barcelona World Swimming Championships but did manage to set up two new Southeast Asian Games records.

Vien on Sunday competed in the women's 400m medley event with a time of 4min 4.60sec, finishing 21st. She failed to earn a berth in the final round but her result is a new national record. It is also a new Southeast Asian (SEA) Games record beating the old one 4:50.88 set by swimmer Natthanan Junkrajang of Thailand in 2011.

Earlier, Vien set up her first record in the women's 200m backstroke event with a time of 2:12.75. The old SEA Games record of 2:14.95 was her own, made in June during the ASEAN age-group swimming championships in Brunei. — VNS