KUALA LUMPUR: After a long spell of stagnation, swimmer Low Zheng Yong finally has a breakthrough to savour.

Zheng Yong touched the wall in the 200m butterfly in 1 minute 56.80 seconds, beating his previous mark of 1:57.96s, set in 2024 at the National Short Course Swimming Championships at the National Aquatics Centre in Bukit Jalil on Friday.

That time saw him inside the B standard of 1:57.15s for the World Championships in Beijing in December.

The 24-year-old's previous national mark of 1:57.96 was about half a second short of the 2024 World Championships qualifying standard.