Swimming competitions at the 2015 SEA Games was held at the OCBC Aquatic Centre in the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore from 6 to 11 June 2015. Built only a year earlier, the venue is hosting the SEA Games for the first time. It was used to host the second Southeast Asian Swimming Championships in 2014 as a test bed for the organisers, with the 2015 Southeast Asian Games volunteers hired to also volunteer in the 2014 Swimming Championships to help in the familiarisation of the new venue.

Swimming
at the 2015 SEA Games
VenueOCBC Aquatic Centre, Kallang, Singapore
Dates6–11 June 2015
Competitors129 from 9 nations
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With swimming being a traditional gold mine for Singapore having been the country's strongest sport, there were high expectations for the squad to deliver another record haul of medals, especially given that Singapore is the host country. Two male athletes in particular, namely Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen were expected to shoulder the responsibility for the hosts, being entered in nine and 12 events respectively. Other athletes expected to shine include Quah Ting Wen, Tao Li and Danny Yeo.[1]

This Aquatics discipline featured 38 long course events: 19 for males and 19 for females.[2] This restores six events which were dropped by the previous host, Myanmar in the 2013 edition.

Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam were expecting to present the most resistance to Singapore's ambitions. In particular, Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên from Vietnam contested strongly especially in 12 events.[3]

Participating nations

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A total of 129 athletes from nine nations competed in swimming at the 2015 SEA Games:

Events

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In most editions of the games, the swimming programme follows closely with the Olympics swimming programme, offering 32 pool events except the two 10 km open-water marathons. However, in 2011, six more non-Olympic events, namely the shorter 50 metre events for backstroke, breaststroke and butterfly were included. Although these were again dropped in 2013, Singapore re-introduced the 38-event programme to capitalise on its strength in swimming.

The following events were contested (all pool events were long course, and distances are in metres unless stated):

Schedule

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The following is the competition schedule for the swimming competitions. As with previous editions of the games, the swimming programme schedule occurs in two segments, with the heats, if any, being conducted in the morning, followed by the final events during the evening sessions:

Legend
Key H ½ F TF
Value Heats Semifinals Final Timed final

M = Morning session, E = Evening session

Men[4]
Date → Jun 6 Jun 7 Jun 8 Jun 9 Jun 10 Jun 11
Event ↓ M E M E M E M E M E M E
50 m freestyle H F
100 m freestyle H F
200 m freestyle H F
400 m freestyle H F
1500 m freestyle F F
50 m backstroke H F
100 m backstroke H F
200 m backstroke H F
50 m breaststroke H F
100 m breaststroke H F
200 m breaststroke H F
50 m butterfly H F
100 m butterfly H F
200 m butterfly H F
200 m individual medley H F
400 m individual medley H F
4×100 m freestyle relay F
4×200 m freestyle relay F
4×100 m medley relay F
Women[4]
Date → Jun 6 Jun 7 Jun 8 Jun 9 Jun 10 Jun 11
Event ↓ M E M E M E M E M E M E
50 m freestyle H F
100 m freestyle H F
200 m freestyle H F
400 m freestyle H F
800 m freestyle F F
50 m backstroke H F
100 m backstroke H F
200 m backstroke H F
50 m breaststroke H F
100 m breaststroke H F
200 m breaststroke H F
50 m butterfly H F
100 m butterfly H F
200 m butterfly H F
200 m individual medley H F
400 m individual medley H F
4×100 m freestyle relay F
4×200 m freestyle relay F
4×100 m medley relay F

Results

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Singapore produced its best performance in swimming in the SEA Games, taking more than half of the total gold medals offered. Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen won ten of these medals and broke nine games records, with Schooling winning all of his events and Quah winning four. Quah and Schooling also combined with their relay teams to games record-breaking wins in all three relays. The women's individual events were dominated by Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên of Vietnam, who won eight gold medals. The Singaporean women combined to win seven individual events as well as all three relays, breaking the games record in the 4x100 medley.

Medal summary

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Key

  *   Host nation (Singapore)

RankNationGoldSilverBronzeTotal
1  Singapore (SIN)*2312742
2  Vietnam (VIE)102416
3  Malaysia (MAS)34411
4  Thailand (THA)110516
5  Indonesia (INA)18716
6  Philippines (PHI)021113
Totals (6 entries)383838114
Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
22.47 GR Napat Wesshasartar
  Thailand
23.08 Triady Fauzi Sidiq
  Indonesia
23.11
100 m freestyle
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
48.58 GR Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
49.91 Hoàng Quý Phước
  Vietnam
50.60
200 m freestyle
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Hoàng Quý Phước
  Vietnam
1.48.96 GR Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
1.49.17 NR Welson Sim Wee Sheng
  Malaysia
1.50.73
400 m freestyle
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Welson Sim Wee Sheng
  Malaysia
3:53.97 GR Jessie Khing Lacuna
  Philippines
3:55.34 Pang Sheng Jun
  Singapore
3:57.60
1500 m freestyle
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Lâm Quang Nhật
  Vietnam
15.31.03 GR Aflah Fadlan Prawira
  Indonesia
15:38.23 NR Kevin Yeap Soon Choy
  Malaysia
15:55.69
50 m backstroke
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Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
25.27 GR I Gede Siman Sudartawa
  Indonesia
25.34 Kasipat Chograthin
  Thailand
25.78
100 m backstroke
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Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
54.51 GR I Gede Siman Sudartawa
  Indonesia
55.60 Trần Duy Khôi
  Vietnam
56.31 NR
200 m backstroke
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Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
2:00.55 GR Trần Duy Khôi
  Vietnam
2:02.44 NR Ricky Anggawidjaja
  Indonesia
2:03.03
50 m breaststroke
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Indra Gunawan
  Indonesia
28.27 Joshua Hall
  Philippines
28.32 Wong Fu Kang
  Malaysia
28.67
100 m breaststroke
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Wong Fu Kang
  Malaysia
1:02.46 NR Radomyos Matjiur
  Thailand
1:02.63 Joshua Hall
  Philippines
1:02.87
200 m breaststroke
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Radomyos Matjiur
  Thailand
2:14.83 Lionel Khoo
  Singapore
2:16.66 NR Cheong Ee Hong Christopher
  Singapore
2:16.99
50 m butterfly
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
23.49 GR Glenn Victor Sutanto
  Indonesia
24.12 Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
24.36
100 m butterfly
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
52.13 GR Glenn Victor Sutanto
  Indonesia
52.90 NR Triady Fauzi Sidiq
  Indonesia
53.98
200 m butterfly
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
1:55.73 GR Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
1:56.79 Jessie Khing Lacuna
  Philippines
2:00.89
200 m individual medley
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Joseph Isaac Schooling
  Singapore
2:00.66 GR Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
2:02.22 Jessie Khing Lacuna
  Philippines
2:02.24
400 m individual medley
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Quah Zheng Wen
  Singapore
4:23.50 Pang Sheng Jun
  Singapore
4:24.81 Trần Duy Khôi
  Vietnam
4:26.29
4×100 m freestyle relay
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  Singapore (SIN)
3:19.59 GR   Malaysia (MAS) 3:25.55 NR   Indonesia (INA) 3:25.92
4×200 m freestyle relay
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  Singapore (SIN) 7:18.14 GR   Malaysia (MAS) 7:30.13   Indonesia (INA) 7:35.63
4×100 m medley relay
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  Singapore (SIN) 3:38.25 GR   Indonesia (INA) 3:42.10   Thailand (THA) 3:45.67

AS Asian record | GR Games record | WR World record
NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a games, Asian, and national record. Asian records are also games and national records.)

Women

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Event Gold Silver Bronze
50 m freestyle
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Lim Xiang Qi Amanda
  Singapore
25.59 GR Quah Ting Wen
  Singapore
25.60 Jasmine Alkhaldi
  Philippines
25.79
100 m freestyle
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Quah Ting Wen
  Singapore
55.93 GR Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
56.05 NR Jasmine Alkhaldi
  Philippines
56.10
200 m freestyle
details
Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
1:59.27 GR Natthanan Junkrajang
  Thailand
2:00.54 Jasmine Alkhaldi
  Philippines
2:00.84
400 m freestyle
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
4:08.66 GR Khoo Cai Lin
  Malaysia
4:17.79 Ammiga Himathongkom
  Thailand
4:20.20
800 m freestyle
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
8:34.85 GR Ammiga Himathongkom
  Thailand
8:52.99 Benjaporn Sriphanomthorn
  Thailand
8:56.39
50 m backstroke
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Tao Li
  Singapore
28.90 GR Shana Lim Jia Yi
  Singapore
29.36 Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
29.40
100 m backstroke
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Tao Li
  Singapore
1:02.67 Anak Agung Istri Kania Ratih
  Indonesia
1:04.38 NR Roxanne Ashley Yu
  Philippines
1:04.80
200 m backstroke
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
2:14.12 GR Yessy Venisia Yosaputra
  Indonesia
2:17.17 Roxanne Ashley Yu
  Philippines
2:18.45
50 m breaststroke
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Ho Ru'En Roanne
  Singapore
31.45 GR Phee Jinq En
  Malaysia
32.46 Erika Kong Chia Chia
  Malaysia
32.58
100 m breaststroke
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Phee Jinq En
  Malaysia
1:10.47 Ho Ru'En Roanne
  Singapore
1:11.78 Samantha Louisa Ginn Yeo
  Singapore
1:11.87
200 m breaststroke
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
2:31.16 Phiangkhwan Pawapotako
  Thailand
2:31.51 Samantha Louisa Ginn Yeo
  Singapore
2:35.60
50 m butterfly
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Tao Li
  Singapore
26.58 GR Quah Ting Wen
  Singapore
27.02 Jasmine Alkhaldi
  Philippines
27.47
100 m butterfly
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Tao Li
  Singapore
59.79 Quah Ting Wen
  Singapore
1:00.30 Jasmine Alkhaldi
  Philippines
1:01.00
200 m butterfly
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
2:11.12 GR Quah Ting Wen
  Singapore
2:14.50 Sutasinee Pankaew
  Thailand
2:14.51
200 m individual medley
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
2:13.53 GR Phiangkhwan Pawapotako
  Thailand
2:18.56 Yeo Ginn Samantha Louisa
  Singapore
2:18.77
400 m individual medley
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Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên
  Vietnam
4:42.88 GR Phiangkhwan Pawapotako
  Thailand
4:52.63 Quah Jing Wen
  Singapore
4:59.52
4×100 m freestyle relay
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  Singapore (SIN) 3:46.60   Thailand (THA) 3:49.62   Indonesia (INA) 3:53.18
4×200 m freestyle relay
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  Singapore (SIN) 8:12.95   Thailand (THA) 8:13.43   Indonesia (INA) 8:30.97 NR
4×100 m medley relay
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  Singapore (SIN)
4:08.72 GR   Thailand (THA) 4:12.80   Philippines (PHI) 4:16.19

AS Asian record | GR Games record | WR World record
NR National record (Any world record is necessarily also a games, Asian, and national record. Asian records are also games and national records.)

Records broken

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Event Date Round Name Nationality Time Record Day
Men's 100 m backstroke 6 June Final Quah Zheng Wen   Singapore 54.51 GR 1
Men's 100 m freestyle 7 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 48.58 GR 2
Men's 200 m freestyle 6 June Final Hoàng Quý Phước   Vietnam 1.48.96 GR 1
Men's 200 m freestyle 7 June Final1 Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 1:47.79 GR 2
Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay 7 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling (1:47.79)
Yeo Kai Quan Danny (1:50.45)
Pang Sheng Jun (1:51.33)
Quah Zheng Wen (1:48.57)
  Singapore 7:18.14 GR 2
Men's 50 m freestyle 8 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 22.47 GR 3
Men's 200 m backstroke 8 June Final Quah Zheng Wen   Singapore 2:00.55 GR 3
Men's 200 m butterfly 8 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 1:55.73 GR 3
Men's 100 m butterfly 9 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 52.13 GR 4
Men's 4 × 100 m freestyle relay 9 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling (49.74)
Yeo Kai Quan Danny (50.56)
Lim Yong'En Clement (49.81)
Quah Zheng Wen (49.48)
  Singapore 3:19.59 GR 4
Men's 50 m butterfly 10 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 23.49 GR 5
Men's 1500 m freestyle 10 June Final Lâm Quang Nhật   Vietnam 15.31.03 GR 5
Men's 200 m individual medley 10 June Final Joseph Isaac Schooling   Singapore 2:00.66 GR 5
Men's 50 m backstroke 11 June Final Quah Zheng Wen   Singapore 25.27 GR 6
Men's 400 m freestyle 11 June Final Welson Sim Wee Sheng   Malaysia 3:53.97 GR 6
Men's 4 × 100 m medley relay 11 June Final Quah Zheng Wen (54.81)
Lionel Khoo (1:02.33)
Joseph Isaac Schooling (51.50)
Lim Yong'En Clement (49.61)
  Singapore 3:38.25 GR 6
  1. ^ Record was set during the Men's 4 × 200 m freestyle relay

Women

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Event Date Round Name Nationality Time Record Day
Women's 400 m individual medley 6 June Heats Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 4:43.93 GR 1
Women's 800 m freestyle 6 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 8:34.85 GR 1
Women's 400 m individual medley 6 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 4:42.88 GR 1
Women's 50 m butterfly 7 June Final Tao Li   Singapore 26.58 GR 2
Women's 200 m backstroke 7 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 2:14.12 GR 2
Women's 200 m individual medley 7 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 2:13.53 GR 2
Women's 50 m backstroke 8 June Final Tao Li   Singapore 28.90 GR 3
Women's 100 m freestyle 8 June Final Quah Ting Wen   Singapore 55.93 GR 3
Women's 200 m butterfly 9 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 2:11.12 GR 4
Women's 200 m freestyle 9 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 1:59.27 GR 4
Women's 50 m breaststroke 10 June Final Ho Ru'En Roanne   Singapore 31.45 GR 5
Women's 400 m freestyle 10 June Final Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên   Vietnam 4:08.66 GR 5
Women's 4 × 100 m medley relay 10 June Final Tao Li (1:03.56)
Ho Ru'En Roanne (1:09.66)
Quah Ting Wen (59.18)
Lim Xiang Qi Amanda (56.32)
  Singapore 4:08.72 GR 5
Women's 50 m freestyle 11 June Final Lim Xiang Qi Amanda   Singapore 25.59 GR 6

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "SEA Games: Swimmer Joseph Schooling aims for a perfect 9 golds". 16 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Swimming at the 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015". seagames2015.com. 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015 (Swimming). Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Nguyen wins 2 gold with SEA Games records to lift Vietnam - Yahoo News". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2017.
  4. ^ a b "Detailed Schedules of Swimming at the 28th SEA Games 2015". Singapore 2015. Archived from the original on 19 May 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
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