The 16-year-old Singapore Sports School student broke the 57-second barrier for the first time in the 100 metres Butterfly when he clocked 56.82 seconds in the heats today, bettering his PB of 57.06 set at June's national championships.
Team Singapore won their second gold medal of the 19th Commonwealth Games in the space of four hours when shooters Aqilah Bte Sudhir and Jasmine Ser finished first in the women's 50 metres Rifle 3 position pairs final. They scored 1149 points to break the Games record of 1143.
Dzulhaili Mohd Kamal set a new personal best of 27.60 seconds in the men's 50 metres Backstroke heats to qualify for the semi-finals. Teo Zhen Ren and Jeremy Kevin Matthews also broke their previous best times in the men's 200m Freestyle heats.
Lionel bettered his under-17 50 and 100m Breaststroke marks with swims of 28.93 seconds and 1 minute 4.06 seconds respectively, while Samantha registered a 1:12.77 to break her own under-14 100m Breaststroke record.
Valerie Lim of Singapore teamed up with Yuriy Fedechko of Ukraine to finish seventh in the Modern Pentathlon Mixed Relay at the Youth Olympic Games. They scored a total of 4460 points.
The 18-year-old National Junior College student had qualified in sixth place with a score of 393, but slipped one place after scoring 100.2 points in the final.
15-year-old Audrey Yong repeated her bronze medal feat at last year's Asian Youth Games when she came in third overall in the girls' Bic Techno 293 category at the Youth Olympic Games sailing competition.
Sailor Audrey Yong won Singapore's sixth medal of the Youth Olympic Games when she came in an overall third place in the girls Bic Techno 293 event at the sailing competition.