SEA Games: Singapore swimmers haul in more medals

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Singapore's swimmers won medals in five out of seven events on day two of SEA Games in Myanmar.

The highlight of the night came as Joseph Schooling ended Singapore's 28-year gold-medal drought in the 200-metre individual medley. And he did it in style, shaving about two seconds off the SEA Games record with his time of two minutes and 00.82 seconds.

But there was disappointment in a re-swim of the women's 100-metre freestyle.

A technical glitch in the race on Thursday meant that Singapore's Amanda Lim had to settle for fourth in the re-swim after initially taking bronze.

Singapore's Quah Ting Wen repeated her earlier silver, finishing behind Thailand's Natthanan Junkrajang.

Elsewhere in the men's 100-metre freestyle, Singapore's Danny Yeo picked up bronze after being beaten by Indonesia's Fauzi Triady and Vietnam's Hoang Quy Phuoc.

Triady's time of 49.99 seconds is a new SEA Games record, as well as the fastest ever by a South East Asian swimmer.

There was a shocker for Singapore's women in the 4X100m freestyle relay.

Singapore led for three quarters of the race, only to finish with silver after being overhauled by Thailand in the last lap.

In the women's 400-metre freestyle, Lynette Lim could only manage a bronze.

Singapore's other representative in this race, Rachel Tseng, finished fourth but managed a personal best of four minutes and 22.17 seconds.

Two golds down, four to go for Schooling
He had a target to chase and a score to settle.

And Joseph Schooling did both last night at the 2013 South-east Asia (SEA) Games, when he obliterated the men’s field in the 200m individual medley to win gold in a new meet record of 2 min 00.82 sec at the Wunna Theikdi swimming pool.

The 18-year-old led from start to finish, touching home almost three seconds faster than Vietnam’s Tran Duy Khoi, who took silver in 2:03.81, with Thailand’s Ketin Nuttapong finishing third in 2:05.06. Schooling became the first Singaporean to win the event since David Lim struck gold in 1985.

It was 21-year-old Nuttapong who beat Schooling by almost two seconds en route to gold and the old meet record of 2:02.90, in the Singaporean’s first SEA Games outing in Indonesia two years ago.

This was Schooling's second gold of the Myanmar Games. The University of Texas undergraduate had earlier won the 4x200m free relay, and is on course to meeting his six-gold target. He will be swimming in the 100m butterfly today.