Swimming at the 2015 SEA Games

Swimming
at the 2015 SEA Games
VenueOCBC Aquatic Centre, Kallang, Singapore
Dates6–11 June 2015
Competitors129 from 9 nations
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Swimming competitions at the 2015 SEA Games was held at the OCBC Aquatic Centre in the Singapore Sports Hub in Kallang, Singapore from 6 to 11 June 2015. Built only a year earlier, the venue is hosting the SEA Games for the first time. It was used to host the second Southeast Asian Swimming Championships in 2014 as a test bed for the organisers, with the 2015 Southeast Asian Games volunteers hired to also volunteer in the 2014 Swimming Championships to help in the familiarisation of the new venue.

With swimming being a traditional gold mine for Singapore having been the country's strongest sport, there were high expectations for the squad to deliver another record haul of medals, especially given that Singapore is the host country. Two male athletes in particular, namely Joseph Schooling and Quah Zheng Wen were expected to shoulder the responsibility for the hosts, being entered in nine and 12 events respectively. Other athletes expected to shine include Quah Ting Wen, Tao Li and Danny Yeo.[1]

This Aquatics discipline featured 38 long course events: 19 for males and 19 for females.[2] This restores six events which were dropped by the previous host, Myanmar in the 2013 edition.

Indonesia, Thailand and Vietnam were expecting to present the most resistance to Singapore's ambitions. In particular, Nguyễn Thị Ánh Viên from Vietnam contested strongly especially in 12 events.[3]

  1. ^ "SEA Games: Swimmer Joseph Schooling aims for a perfect 9 golds". 16 May 2015.
  2. ^ "Swimming at the 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015". seagames2015.com. 28th Southeast Asian Games 2015 (Swimming). Archived from the original on 18 May 2015. Retrieved 27 April 2015.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: unfit URL (link)
  3. ^ "Nguyen wins 2 gold with SEA Games records to lift Vietnam - Yahoo News". Archived from the original on 5 March 2016. Retrieved 15 January 2017.