Schooling’s open top bus parade set for Thursday morning

SINGAPORE — Joseph Schooling’s historic achievement of winning Singapore’s first-ever Olympic gold medal is set to be widely celebrated with an open top bus victory parade held in his honour on Thursday (Aug 18).

Organised by SportSG, the victory parade – subject to clearance by the authorities – is scheduled for 9.30am on Thursday. The parade will start from Old Airport Road, through to Marine Parade, Somerset, Orchard Road and Raffles City.

The 21-year-old clinched gold in the men’s 100m butterfly final in a new Olympic record time of 50.39sec, defeating 23-time Olympic gold medalist Michael Phelps from the United States, South Africa’s Chad le Clos and Hungary’s Laszlo Cseh, who all finished joint-second in 51.14sec, on Saturday morning.

Schooling arrived in Singapore on early Monday morning where he was greeted by around 500 fans at Changi Airport. He is set to leave for Texas at 2.30am on Friday, to resume his university studies. Hence, the University of Texas student could not stay for the National Day Rally.