🏊♀️ WATCH: Still going strong eighteen years after her SEA Games debut, swimmer Quah Ting Wen clocked a time of 55.83s to take her fifth consecutive gold in the 100m freestyle on Monday (May 8).
"There'd be nights before my races where I couldn't sleep till 12 or maybe 1, but here, I'm sleeping like a baby even though it's hot and the beds in the village are hard. I'm sleeping well," she told reporters after making it five consecutive golds in the 100m freestyle at the Morodok Techo Aquatic Centre in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, on Monday .Perhaps, this is her experience talking.
"This girl has brought so much to Singapore, she is so talented in everything she puts her mind to," said national head coach Gary Tan of Quah.Nicholas Mahabir competes in the SEA Games men’s swimming 4x100m medley relay, on May 8, 2023. The men’s 4x100m medley relay team of Teong Tzen Wei, Jonathan Tan, Nicholas Mahabir and Quah Zheng Wen also set a new Games and national record of 3:37.45. The quartet took gold ahead of Thailand and Indonesia.
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