Joseph Schooling Concludes 2015 SEA Games With 9 Gold Medals

2015 SOUTHEAST ASIA GAMES

  • Saturday, June 6 – Thursday, June 11
  • OCBC Aquatics Centre, Singapore
  • Prelims 9AM / Finals 7 PM (local time)
  • Entry lists
  • Meet results

After winning his first eight events, Singapore’s Joseph Schooling split 51.50 on the butterfly leg of the 400 medley relay, leading his relay to finish with a new record time of 3:38.25. Also on the relay was Khoo Chien yin, Quah Zheng Wen, and Lim Clement Yong, giving Singapore’s swim team their 23rd gold medal and 42nd total medal for the week.

**Update: Schooling swam the butterfly leg of the relay, rather than the backstroke leg, which is what was originally reported. Quah Zheng Wen led off with a 54.81 100 backstroke.

The first event of the day was won by Indonesia’s Gunawan Indra, posting a gold medal time in the men’s 50 breaststroke of 28.27. He was within .02 hundreths of a second off of his meet record from 2011.

Singapore’s Lim Xiang Qi popped a meet record to win the women’s 50 freestyle with a time of 25.59. It was an incredibly close race, coming down to .01 seconds. Quah Ting Wen won the silver medal with a time of 25.60, also swimming under the previous record.

Another record immediately followed in the men’s 50 backstroke. Quah Zheng Wen reached for the wall in 25.27 for the gold medal.

Malaysia’s Sim Welson Wee Sheng had a fantastic swim to win the gold medal in the men’s 400 freestyle, posting a record time of 3:53.97.

The final individual win of the night came from Tao Li, despite being challenged and called out by Nguyen earlier in the week. Tao was the only swimmer to finish under 1 minute with a time of 59.79.

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Simon
9 years ago

Malaysia’s 16yr old Fukang Wong split 61.7 on the breaststroke split of the medley relay. Exciting prospect there!

Kenneth
9 years ago

Joseph stated after the SEA Games that for Kazan he’ll be only focusing on the fly events. So he’ll only be swimming the 50/100/200 fly and not the 200IM.

And here are the splits for the 4x100m medley relay last night:
BA: Quah Zheng Wen – 54.81
BR: Lionel Khoo – 1:02.33
FL: Joseph Schooling – 51.50
FR: Clement Lim – 49.61
Total: 3:38.25

ice
Reply to  Kenneth
9 years ago

great great splits. Can’t really complain much. For years we’ve lagged behind in this relay only to trounce it this time. Sweeter for Clement Lim who’ve been on the last 3 losing editions to Indonesia.

You know what was amazing for me? Tao Li’s reaction after she won the 100 Fly. She was challenged by Nguyen who basically called out in the media that she wanted to beat Tao Li on Tao Li’s home ground. Tao Li was in battle mode right from the moment she came out and she punched the water three times after her win. Tao Li may no longer be in her 2008 Olympic form, but she is a true fighter

Kenneth
Reply to  ice
9 years ago

Yes I was very impressed with all the men’s relays, all of which set new national marks. Was especially impressed with this medley relay as well, not only smashing Indonesia’s Games record by 3 seconds, but smashing our own national mark by 5 seconds. Going below 3:40 was an added bonus which I was quietly hopeful for. Glad they got it!

Apparently it’s Clement’s last Games? Congrats to him! He’s really been the unsung hero for so many of our relay teams. Happy for Danny and Sheng Jun as well, as Danny’s not been feeling too well but still swam well and Sheng Jun for finally getting his individual medals! Hopefully the likes of Darren Lim can step up! And… Read more »

ice
Reply to  Kenneth
9 years ago

Clement was interviewed by Redsports and said that retirement’s still up in the air; depends on how he recovers from injuries and juggles with school work. I hope he stays. I call him relay beast because he truly is a relay beast. He only has three modes: good, very good and “what in the world did he just do”.

I was quietly expecting a 3:41 and was thinking maybe Joe would miss out on this Games Record but boy did his teammates deliver for him.

Wirotomo
9 years ago

Quah Zheng Wen is the leadoff swimmer in 54.81. Schooling swam the fly leg in 51.50.

E GAMBLE
9 years ago

I wonder how much money he gets with all the records and gold medals? I think I read it is up to 1 million dollars.

Leon
Reply to  E GAMBLE
9 years ago

He can get a total of $30,000 for the SEA games ($10,000 per gold, capped at $30,000). It’s only a million if he wins gold at the Olympics. That being said, unless he decides to go pro and forgoes another season swimming the NCAAs, he won’t be/can’t take the prize money.

Leon
9 years ago

Hi guys, error report: It was Quah who led off on the medley relay, Joseph swam the butterfly leg.

Justin Thompson
9 years ago

I’m not sure why people think he’s going to go a 50 point this year. Who besides Phelps has gone a 50 point in a textile in the last 4 years, but all of a sudden all the up and coming fliers are going to swim a 50 point.

Kazan

50 fly – 23.25
100 fly – 51.25
200 fly – 1:54.25
200 IM – 1:58.25

Swimmer A
Reply to  Justin Thompson
9 years ago

Haha I mean, ur fly prediction is only .26 off of that….. so like how skeptical could you really be?

Markster
Reply to  Swimmer A
9 years ago

Welcome the sport of swimming. Where in 50m and 100m races .26 is a lot.

Justin Thompson
Reply to  Swimmer A
9 years ago

I like the kid and may be a little ambitious with that 51.25. I just think people are taking a 50 pt a little lightly these days.

wave rider
Reply to  Justin Thompson
9 years ago

It’s not that people are taking 50 point lightly, it’s because people realize Joe Schooling really is THAT good. We are talking about a guy who went 51.69 before one day of training in Austin. Since then he has gone a textile best in the 100 scy fly, split the fastest scy 50 fly ever, and stepped up and beat the #1 and 2 200 scy flyers of all time. We are talking about a coach that coached the best LCM 100 fly performance ever. We are talking about a fierce competitor on the same level as Phelps. I love that intense firey spirit, Schooling is my second favorite swimmer and that is saying a lot because I really like… Read more »

Pvk
9 years ago

Wow he is good, 54.8 and not even a backstroker. I genuinely believe he will go around the following times in Kazan if he swims all of them-
50 fly- 23.0
100 fly- 50.7
200 fly- 1:53.9
200 IM- 1:57.9

Sprintdude9000
9 years ago

This dude is amazing. Time wise I’m most impressed with his 100m free, though his 50m free was incredibly fast considering it looked so technically poor… I’m fairly sure he took 3 breaths within 6 strokes somewhere near the middle (could be wrong though).

ice
Reply to  Sprintdude9000
9 years ago

Yes, the analysts were “complaining” about his technique. But hey, it brought him the gold

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