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Schooling wins again at NCAA meet, Quah qualifies for Rio 2016

SINGAPORE – National swimmer Joseph Schooling has secured another win at the National Collegiate of Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division One Swimming Championships in Iowa, finishing first in the men’s 200 yards butterfly final.

Joseph Schooling, Gold medalist of the 200m Individual Medley at the 27th SEA Games Myanmar. TODAY file photo.

Joseph Schooling, Gold medalist of the 200m Individual Medley at the 27th SEA Games Myanmar. TODAY file photo.

SINGAPORE – National swimmer Joseph Schooling has secured another win at the National Collegiate of Athletic Associations (NCAA) Division One Swimming Championships in Iowa, finishing first in the men’s 200 yards butterfly final.

On Saturday (Sunday, March 29, Singapore time), the Singaporean won in 1min 39.62secs, ahead of University of Texas (Austin) team-mate Jack Conger who took silver (1:39.74).

Michigan’s Dylan Bosch, the event’s NCAA record holder (1:39.33), settled for bronze in 1:40.12.

When converted from short course yards format into the equivalent in long course metres, Schooling’s time translates to about 1:53.72, which would have placed him fourth in the event at the 2012 London Olympics, just behind bronze medallist Takeshi Matsuda’s 1:53.21.

The 19-year-old had also won the 100 yards butterfly final on Friday (Saturday morning, Singapore time).

Schooling, a freshman at the University of Texas in Austin, was also named the meet’s top freshman swimmer.

His win comes after national team-mate Quah Zheng Wen qualified for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, after winning the men’s 200m butterfly at the Spanish Open in Malaga on Saturday.

Quah - part of the team from the national training centre (NTC) at the meet – won the final in 1:56.85, dipping under the “A” qualifying time of 1:56.97 for the 2016 Olympics.

The 19-year-old Quah – whom two weeks ago set three new Singapore national records at the Singapura Finance National Age-Group Championships – finished ahead of Spain’s Carlos Peralta (1:57.49) and Portugal’s Nuno Quintanilha (1:57.55).

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