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Filipina swimmers Kayla Sanchez, Xiandi Chua, Chloe Isleta, and Heather White finish the years-long reign of Singapore within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay within the Southeast Asian Video games
CHONBURI, Thailand – Olympic medalist Kayla Sanchez loved a splendid Southeast Asian Video games debut as she, Xiandi Chua, Chloe Isleta, and Heather White swam their strategy to the gold medal within the girls’s 4x100m freestyle relay on the SAT Swimming Pool in Bangkok on Wednesday, December 10.
Sanchez, Chua, Isleta, and White — the Philippines’ second gold medalist after poomsae standout Justin Kobe Macario — clocked 3 minutes and 44.26 seconds to finish the years-long reign of Singapore, which dominated the occasion in every of the previous 5 SEA Video games.
The quartet additionally eclipsed the occasions of Singapore’s gold-winning squads within the 2021 Vietnam (3:45.71) and 2023 Cambodia (3:44.29) editions.
Singapore settled for silver for the primary time since 2013 with a time of three:46.53, whereas Vietnam bagged bronze with 3:47.47.
The ladies’s 4x100m freestyle relay is identical occasion the place Sanchez, 24, received an Olympic silver with Canada within the Tokyo Video games in 2021, two years earlier than she formally switched federations to the Philippines.
Sanchez clinched an Olympic bronze within the girls’s 4x100m medley in the identical Video games as properly.
In the meantime, Chua received a SEA Video games medal within the occasion for the second straight version after nailing silver in 2023 along with Jasmine Alkhaldi, Miranda Renner, and Teia Salvino.
It’s also the second SEA Video games gold for each Isleta and Chua, who topped the ladies’s 200m backstroke in 2021 and 2023, respectively.
Swimming produced two medals on Day 1 of the swimming competitions, with Gian Christopher Santos getting silver within the males’s 200m medley.
A SEA Video games first-timer, Santos registered 2:03.88 to complete behind Vietnam’s Hung Nguyen Tran, who struck gold with 2:02.11. – Rappler.com
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