Quah Zheng Wen wins most important gold medal in S'pore SEA Games history

The 51st SEA Games Gold and many more to come.

Tan Xing Qi| June 09, 09:09 PM

With his winning swim at the 400m Individual Medley, swimming hunk Quah Zheng Wen wrote himself into Singapore's history book, winning the 51st gold for Team Singapore.

And with his fingers touching the wall at 7.53pm, this year's pool of SEA Games athletes breached the 50-medal mark set 20 years ago.

Check out his winning performance.

quah zheng wen 400m individual medley

In other news, the-boy-who-could-swim-no-wrong Joseph Schooling won (what's new) the 100m Butterfly with a timing of 52.13s (in a games record as usual).

Quah and Schooling later combined forces with Yeo Kai Quan and Clement Lim to take the 4x100m Freestyle Relay Gold and another Games Record.

Once again, it was almost a clean sweep of golds for our swimmers, winning four out of six events.

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Pity that Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Lawrence Wong has to probably replace his celebratory poster he posted almost immediately, when Tao Li won the 50th gold for Singapore.

 

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50th birthday Singapore! Our athletes have just won 50 gold medals at the SEA GAMES 2015, matching our last record...

Posted by Lawrence Wong on Tuesday, 9 June 2015

 

His FB post was immediately old news five minutes later after Quah won.

28th SEA Games Singapore 2015 - OCBC Aquatic Centre,  Singapore - 7/6/15  Swimming - Men's 4x200m Freestyle Relay - Final - Singapore's Quah Zheng Wen (L), Pang Sheng Jun (2nd L), Yeo Kai Quan and Joseph Schooling (R) on podium TEAMSINGAPORE Mandatory Credit: Singapore SEA Games Organising Committee / Action Images via Reuters Source: 28th SEA Games website

Top photo by Action Images via Reuters.

 

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