2017 SEA GAMES
- Opening Ceremony August 19th; Swimming Competition August 21st – August 26th
- Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- LCM
- Meet Site
- SwimSwam Meet Preview
- Day 1 Recap
- Day 2 Recap
- Day 3 Recap
- Day 4 Recap
- Day 5 Recap
- Results & Also via Kuala Lumpur 2017 App
Swimming at the 2017 Southeast Asia (SEA) Games concluded tonight in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, but not before the nation of Singapore topped the overall aquatic medal count in historic fashion. Aided by top guns Joseph Schooling and the Quah siblings of Zheng Wen, Ting Wen and Jing Wen, Singapore collected a total of 46 gold medals as a team, surpassing their previous best-ever medal haul at an ‘away’ SEA Games of 43 back in 2007.
It was fitting that Olympic champion Schooling was a part of the 46th and final medal tonight, as the men’s 4x100m medley relay rocked a new Games and Singaporean national record-setting time of 3:37.46 to close out the meet. Teamed up with Zheng Wen, Darren Lim and Lionel Khoo, this relay medal marked Schooling’s 6th gold of this year’s Games, giving him a perfect 6-for-6 record in wins. As part of the relay, Zheng Wen also earned an incredible 6 golds, as well as a silver in the 50m backstroke.
Sisters Quah Jing Wen and Quah Ting Wen were also on the podium today, with a 1-3 finish in the 100m butterfly event. Jing Wen took the top prize in a time of 59.38, the only sub-minute outing of the field, while sister Ting Wen captured bronze in 1:00.69. Splitting the Singaporean sisters was Thai athlete and Texas A&M swimmer Kornkarnjana Sapianchai who earned silver in 1:00.45.
Ting Wen was also in action in the women’s 50m freestyle, where she clocked a time of 25.46 to take silver. That brought her individual total to 7 medals in all, including a trio of golds in the 100 free, 50 fly and 4×200 free relay on the same night.
Winning the women’s 50m free tonight, however, was Singapore’s Amanda Lim, who notched her best time since 2009. The 24-year-old touched in 25.41 to win the event .05 ahead of Ting Wen. With the victory, Lim earned her 5th consecutive SEA Games gold in this event.
Additional winners on the day include Vietnam’s Nguyen Huy Hoang with a victory in the 1500m freestyle. He earned a mark of 15:20.10 to register a new Games Record time.
Teammate Nguyen Thi Anh Vien grabbed her 10th medal of the Games with a gold in the 200m freestyle. Notching a time of 1:59.24, Vien Nguyen brought her historic Games to conclusion, one in which she earned gold across the 200/400/800 freestyle, the 50/100/200 backstroke and the 200IM/400IM events, as well as silver in the 100 free and 200 breast.
Indonesia’s Indra Gunawan took the 50m breaststroke in a time of 28.25 to put his nation on the board tonight.
Next year is the Asian Games. If no surprise, he will at least get gold for 50 and 100 fly.
He probably will. I however will be surprised if he doesn’t win those two in Jakarta next year
Yah agree. He is the Asian record holder in 50 fly and the fastest in Asia in 100 fly for now. His threat will come from Li Zhuhao from China.
Well of course an Olympic American swimmer will dominate Asian games.
This is SEA Games.
Asian Games is next year.
Southeast Asia. Sorry I don’t follow Asian meets so I was being very broad.
He’s not American. He just trains there most of the time.
My point exactly. He’s has American training, and his performances easily blow away everyone else at this meet.
There are many swimmers in Southeast Asia who have American training, he’s not the only one
Just watched the race video of the medley relay. Announcers said that nobody can go with Joe in the 100 fly on the Olympic level…..dude might have missed a thing or two
Quiet a few people can go with him actually. The gap has shrunk.
Or five.
Do forgive him. The announcer tends to get very excited about the Singapore swimmers so sometimes he over-exaggerates slightly.
Didnt seem to catch that. Which race video did you watch? Was it the one posted by Sport Singapore?
Oh found it. Think what he meant to day was that during the Olympics he finished way ahead of everyone and should too during the SEA Games
Splits for the singapore team were:
Quah Zheng wen: 55.10
Lionel Khoo: 1:01.75
Jospeh schooling: 50.90
Darren Lin: 49.71
Schooling will go faster in practice between sessions.
always do lol
That joke isn’t funny anymore
It’ll never get old.
Wow. Schooling split 50.90? How u manage to get the splits?
Literally recorded the races and rewatched it to manually count the split times from the split times shown on the TV. They’re not available anywhere else