In total, Singapore’s swimming contingent won 11 gold, nine silver and 10 bronze medals to emerge as the top swimming nation at the SEA Games for the fifth straight time.
The quartet of Tao Li, Samantha Yeo, Quah Ting Wen and Amanda Lim extended Singapore’s winning streak in the women’s 4x100m medley relay to six, when they finished in a time of 4 minutes 13.02 seconds. They were two and a half seconds ahead of runners-up Thailand.
Tao Li defended her 100m backstroke and butterfly titles, while Joseph Schooling and the men's 4x100m freestyle relay team storm to record-breaking victories.
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.
We caught up with Zhen Ren as he shares with us his experience of coming back from an injury to qualify for the SEA Games.
Joseph Schooling, 18, is part of the Team Singapore contingent heading to the 2013 South-east Asian (SEA) Games. The swimmer currently holds five national swimming records.
It was altogether a much better second day for Singapore with nine swimmers in the finals, one medal and five new short-course national records.
