The Singaporean swimming squad for this month’s Olympic Games is set, as a quartet of athletes are bound for Tokyo, Japan.
Joseph Schooling leads the pack, with the 26-year-old former Texas Longhorn swimmer entering this year’s Games as the defending Olympic champion in the men’s 100m fly.
In Rio 5 years ago, Schooling famously beat out a field of heavy hitters in the form of American Michael Phelps, South African Chad Le Clos and Hungarian Laszlo Cseh en route to becoming the first-ever gold medalist from his nation. The trio of titans all tied for silver behind Schooling.
He’ll be joined in Tokyo by siblings Quah Zheng Wen and Quah Ting Wen, the latter of which was just named today via the FINA universality rule. She’ll be racing in the 50m and 100m freestyle events while her brother is set to compete in the 100m back and 100m fly.
We reported how Chantal Liew will race as Singapore’s first-ever open water swimmer at an Olympic Games.
Singapore was medal-less at the 2019 FINA World Championships, with the nation’s highest individual placement in swimming coming from Schooling having finished 20th in the non-Olympic 50m fly.
Since the 2016 Olympic Games, Schooling’s best 100m fly time came in the form of the 51.94 he produced for gold at the 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games.
Hot take: he makes finals. Aside from Milak and Dressel continuing to break the laws of physics, the fly field has seem iffy at best- especially with Chad not looking as his usual self (he’ll probably speed up though)
F the haterz let the guy race. Is he expected to be a competitor to win? Probably not. But 51.low is very much a reasonable expectation. That should final.
Is Schooling competing for Singapore at Masters Worlds or the Olympics?
Schooling goes 53.2
Claims to go 49.9 in practice, fasted, while wearing a brief.
No Ragrets.
51.5 of incoming
Even if Santo and Schooling decided to swim the 100 fly as a two man relay they’d still finish second in the Bolles standings at this year’s Olympics.
He’s out of lane, bit He’s not wrong
wow, he is still swimming.
Joseph went a 47.99 100 fly from the bottom this morning. I think it’s time to start tapering.
“From the bottom?” A new term of art with which I’m not familiar?
Floating start. Better put push off from the bottom not the wall
Yea, in a yards pool I bet.
Yiha to the 47 mark Sergio:-)