Joseph Schooling

Joseph Schooling
Personal information
Full name Joseph Isaac Schooling
Nationality  Singapore
Born 16 June 1995
Singapore
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight 74 kg (163 lb; 11.7 st)
Sport
Sport Swimming
Strokes Butterfly, freestyle, individual medley

Joseph Isaac Schooling (born 16 June 1995) is a national record holding Singaporean swimmer. He is qualified to swim at the 2012 Olympics, from the time he swam in winning 200 fly at the 2011 SEA Games.[1] As of 2012, he attends school and trains at the swimming powerhouse[2] The Bolles School in the USA. He was educated at the Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) and the University of Texas in Austin, where he is part of the Longhorns, one of the top collegiate swim programmes under two-time United States Olympic men’s head coach Eddie Reese.[3][4]

At the 2011 Southeast Asian Games, he swam to 2 gold, 1 silver and 1 bronze medals; 1 Games Record, and 4 Singapore Records. His 1:56.67 winning time in the 200 fly was under the "A" qualifying standard for the 2012 Olympics.

He had originally been enlisted into the National Service on October 2013, but was deferred till the end of 2016 Summer Olympic Games.

He became the first Singaporean to win a swimming medal at the Commonwealth Games, taking silver in the 100m butterfly at the 2014 games in Glasgow.[5]

Personal life and family

Joseph Schooling is a third-generation Singaporean,[6] and is of Eurasian ethnicity.[7] He is the only child to May and Colin Schooling.[7] May is a Malaysian Chinese and a Singapore permanent resident; while Colin, a businessman, was also born in Singapore and educated at Raffles Institution. Colin's grandfather was a British military officer who married a local Portuguese-Eurasian in Singapore. Amid discontent over foreign-born athletes competing for Singapore, Colin rejected online descriptions of his son as a foreigner.[6]

2014 Asian Games

Event Results Time
Men's 50m Butterfly Silver Medal 23.70
Men's 100m Butterfly Gold Medal 51.76
Men's 200m Butterfly Bronze Medal 1:57.54

After the conclusion of the swimming programme, Schooling along with fellow swimmers Roanne Ho and Teo Zhen Ren, reportedly broke Team Singapore's code of conduct when they left the Athletes’ Village at Namdong-gu without seeking the permission of officials. The trio allegedly went drinking before returning to the village, where they were escorted to their apartments by village security. Some claimed at least two of them appeared intoxicated, while others said they were able to walk on their own and did not cause disturbance.[8][9] After an investigation by the Singapore National Olympic Council, Schooling and the other two swimmers were issued a letter of warning for leaving the Athletes' Village without permission.[10] The Council clarified that the three swimmers did not have a drunken night out and had not displayed unruly behaviour.[11] They had gone for supper at a nearby food centre as the dining hall at the Village was closed. Schooling was offered a congratulatory drink by well-wishers for his performances, which he accepted “out of courtesy”. They were driven by volunteers in security bibs in golf carts on their return to the Village in order to save walking time.

References

  1. ↑ Les Tan (2011-11-16). "SEA Games Swimming: Joseph Schooling destroys field and qualifies for Olympics". redsports.sg. Retrieved 2011-12-16.
  2. ↑ http://www.bolles.org/s/864/currentsp/indexNoRot.aspx?sid=864&gid=1&pgid=1757&cid=2777&ecid=2777&crid=0&calpgid=860&calcid=1633
  3. ↑ http://redsports.sg/2009/04/28/joseph-schooling-swimming/
  4. ↑ Goh, Philip (25 September 2014). "Schooling strikes gold for Singapore". MediaCorp. TODAY. Retrieved 25 September 2014.
  5. ↑ http://www.straitstimes.com/news/sport/more-sport-stories/story/commonwealth-games-schooling-wins-singapores-first-swimming-meda
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 "Singapore Asiad star's dad refutes 'foreigner' tag". Agence France Presse. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Chua, Siang Yee. "My boy Joseph is a true son of Singapore, says Colin Schooling". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2 October 2014.
  8. ↑ Phua, Emmanuel (1 October 2014). "Cut swimmers some slack, say former national athletes". MediaCorp. TODAY. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  9. ↑ Low, Lin Fhoong (30 September 2014). "Team S’pore caught in alcohol brouhaha". MediaCorp. TODAY. Retrieved 1 October 2014.
  10. ↑ Chua, Siang Yee (30 October 2014). "Joseph Schooling, 2 other swimmers warned by SNOC over incident at Asian Games". Singapore Press Holdings. The Straits Times. Retrieved 30 October 2014.
  11. ↑ Wong, Adelene (4 November 2014). "SNOC: Swimming trio neither unruly nor drunk". Today. Retrieved 4 November 2014.

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