The 2019 Southeast Asian (SEA) Games’ opening ceremony is scheduled for Saturday, November 30th, with the swimming portion of the multi-sport, international competitive event kicking off on December 4th.
This year marks the 30th edition of the biannual event, set to be hosted by the Philippines, the nation who previously played host back in 1981 and 1991. The hosting rights were originally awarded to Brunei Darussalam, but the country pulled out days before the 2015 Southeast Asian Games due to “financial and logistical reasons.”
The major national players are starting to reveal their aquatic rosters, starting with Singapore, who will have Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen among its representation.
Both men recently competed at the 2019 World Championships in Gwangju, Korea, with less than stellar results. Schooling missed out on the semi-finals of his pet 100m fly event, the race in which he won Olympic gold in 2016. For Quah, the Cal student-athlete finished 27th in the 200m fly.
Singapore finished atop the swimming medal table at the 2017 edition fo the SEA Games, taking home 19 gold, 7 silver, and 11 bronze for 37 medals in all. Schooling won the men’s 100m free, 50m fly, 100m fly, along with 3 relay golds, while Quah took gold across the 100m back, 200m back, 200m fly and relays.
Singapore will be bringing 585 athletes across 49 sports, according to the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC). We will publish the complete aquatics roster once it is made available.
Hope Zheng wen can set a new personal best in his pet two hundred metre fly event there!Hope he can wrestle back his fifty metre backstroke title from the singapore sea games in december!
Zheng Wen looks pretty strong in the two hundred metre freestyle at the recent world champ!If he lowers his time ever further,he has a pretty good good chance of setting a new national record and winning his first individual gold in the event at the manila sea games in december!Afterall,he is the fastest southeast asian in the two hundred metre freestyle at the recent world champ!
I don’t even know why Madison cox even bothers swimming anymore. She has already reached the pinnacle of the sport: dating Lord Farris
I hope you are 16.
It cracks me up. Schooling won a gold medal at the Olympics, an unfathomable accomplishment for Singapore, and not only did he win, he did it by beating the greatest Olympian in history. And so many people want to criticize him for not being as good as he was after achieving what was, honestly, something almost unthinkable and so beyond reasonable expectation. It must feel good to know so much and have accomplished so little by JoJo’s standard.
No, they do not criticize him he is not good now, they could not care less; they are angry he won Olympic gold and “he did it by beating the greatest Olympian in history.” Bunch of Phelps groupies will never get over it.
Mrs. Schooling?
Dude he’s a professional swimmer who’s bad at his job. If you work for a hedge fund and you have great returns one year that’s great. If you then lose ten million dollars the next one, they’re still gonna fire you. Same thing with Joseph, if he wants to roll with dawgs he has to roll with the dawgs.
Whatever pays the bills!
He’s been on a two year taper so expect some big swims.
Predictions: 1:44 high 200 fly, 45.8 100 fly, and 11.6 50 fly.
I’m just here for the mature and respectful responses
Thank you
Ahhh he was saving his taper for this
apparently so …..such a smart lad
Don’t think so, he just seems off this year.
And every year