Joseph Schooling led from start to finish in the men’s 200 metres individual medley and clocked a time of 2 minutes 0.82 seconds to improve on silver-medal showing at the last Games.
Team Singapore won three gold medals on the opening night of the swimming competition at the 27th Southeast Asian Games.
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Singapore’s swimmers emerged from the five-day competition at the 2nd Asian Youth Games with a haul of five gold, 10 silver and two bronze medals.
Singapore’s athletes did not manage any podium finishes at the 2nd Asian Youth Games track and field competition, but they put up encouraging displays, with 10 of the 22 team members registering a total of 13 personal bests.
Joseph Schooling of Singapore set two new national open records and swam in two semi-finals at the 15th FINA World World Championships.
The 16-year-old clocked a time of 24.54 seconds into a slight headwind of 0.1 metres per second to finish third in her heat. The top three from each of the six heats, as well as the next three fastest overall, qualify for the semi-finals.
Singapore’s Shanti Veronica Pereira clocked a time of 11.96 seconds in the semi-finals of the women’s 100m competition at the 8th IAAF World Youth Championships. The wind speed was -0.3 metres per second.
