SEA Games: Women's 4x100m medley relay take Singapore's only pool gold of the day

Singapore's quartet of (from left) Samantha Yeo, Tao Li, Amanda Lim and Quah Ting Wen are introduced before the start of the women's 4x100m medley relay in swimming competition of the 27th SEA Games in Naypyidaw's Wunna Theikdi Swimming Com
Singapore's quartet of (from left) Samantha Yeo, Tao Li, Amanda Lim and Quah Ting Wen are introduced before the start of the women's 4x100m medley relay in swimming competition of the 27th SEA Games in Naypyidaw's Wunna Theikdi Swimming Complex, Myanmar, on Sunday, Dec 15, 2013. They blitzed the competition to win the SEA Games women's 4x100m medley relay, Singapore's only title from the pool on Sunday night. -- ST PHOTO: KEVIN LIM

The quartet of Tao Li, Samantha Yeo, Quah Ting Wen and Amanda Lim blitzed the competition to win the SEA Games women's 4x100m medley relay, Singapore's only title from the pool on Sunday night.

Russell Ong delivered silver in the men's 50m freestyle, clocking 23.14 seconds. He finished behind Indonesia's Triady Fauzi Sidiq, who set a new meet record of 23.12.

Singapore's Darren Lim, who had been touted a challenger for Ang Peng Siong's 1982 national record of 22.69, could only manage fifth position with a time of 23.58.

In the women's 200m freestyle, Quah and Lynette Lim won a silver and bronze respectively. Their times of 2:01.74 and 2:02.62 put them behind Thailand swim queen Natthanan Junkrajang, who clocked 2:01.03.

Samantha Yeo clinched her first medal of the Games in the women's 200m breaststroke, when she clocked 2:34.27.

Teo Zhen Ren failed to retain his title in the men's 1,500m freestyle, finishing fifth with a time of 16:10.97.

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