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SEA Games: Joseph Schooling wins 50m butterfly in new Games record

KUALA LUMPUR — Joseph Schooling has successfully defended his 50m butterfly title at the SEA Games, with a time of 23.06s

Joseph Schooling acknowledges the crowd after winning the SEA Games men's 50m butterfly in a new Games record time. Photo: Jason Quah / TODAY

Joseph Schooling acknowledges the crowd after winning the SEA Games men's 50m butterfly in a new Games record time. Photo: Jason Quah / TODAY

KUALA LUMPUR — Joseph Schooling has successfully defended his 50m butterfly title at the SEA Games, splashing home in a new Games record time of 23.06s at the Nationla Aquatic Centre at Bukit Jalil in Kuala Lumpur.

The 22-year-old Olympic champion was in sizzling form as he smashed the old SEA Games record of 23.49s, which he set in at the 2015 SEA Games in Singapore.

The time was a little slower than the Asian record of 22.95sec which he had set last month in the Fina World Championships in Budapest, Hungary, when he finished fifth in the final. But such was his superiority in Kuala Lumpur on Monday night (Aug 21) that he touched the wall  almost a second ahead of Indonesia's Triady Fauzi Sidiq who took the silver in 24.01sec.

Vietnam's Le Nguyen Paul was third in 24.37sec while Dylan Koo, Singapore's other representative in the event, was sixth in 24.61sec.

Schooling, who was swarmed by the media after his race, said he was happy with how his first race went.

"The first swim is always a little nervy," said the University of Texas undergraduate. "But I am happy with the result, couldn't have asked for a better start, and hopefully I will get better as the meet goes along."

Schooling has no individual events on Tuesday. He has been pencilled in for the men's 4x100m freestyle relay.

 

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