United States' gold medal winner Caeleb Dressel is flanked by Hungary's silver medal winner Kristof Milak and bronze medal winners Britain's James Guy and Singapore's Joseph Schooling during the awards ceremony for the men's 100-metre butterfly final during the swimming competitions of the World Aquatics Championships in Budapest, Hungary on Jul 29, 2017. (Photo: AP/Petr David Josek)
SINGAPORE: Olympic champion Joseph Schooling bagged a joint bronze medal at the men's 100m butterfly final with a timing of 50.83s at the FINA World Championships on Sunday (Jul 30, Singapore time).
American Caeleb Dressel won the event with a timing of 49.86s, just 0.04s short of the world record set by Michael Phelps in 2009. Hungary's Kristof Milak picked up the silver with a timing of 50.62s, while James Guy from the UK tied with Schooling at third place.
"It was an unbelievably fast race, Caeleb was amazing, the Hungarian kid came from nowhere with an incredible time," said Schooling. "The next three or four years are going to be really interesting between the four of us."
At the semi-finals on Saturday, Schooling clocked 50.78s at the Duna Arena in Budapest, Hungary to finish 4th overall. He also came in 4th in the heats on Friday, clocking 51.21s.
The 100m butterfly was Schooling's final shot at gold at the championships after he finished fifth in the 50m butterfly final and failed to make the semi-finals of the 100m freestyle.
The 22-year-old was a favourite to win the event after he clinched Singapore's historic gold medal during the 2016 Rio Olympic Games.
Source: Channel News Asia
No one reigns supreme forever, in the course of human history everything including success is fleeting; best recent example is Tiger Woods-how far he has fallen......from world no. 1 to a present outside the top 1000 ranking.
Chillax boys and girl (only one girl here right?), its Sunday. Down a beer and stop with the petty squabbling already.
Anways congrats to Schooling, kudos to you mate, just strive harder next time!
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Dude let her be, you know you can never win a woman in an argument, because we men have a need to make proper sense, females don't.
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Looks like someone is experiencing that time of the month, leaking blood and harsh language.
Seriously the hell is your problem? Stop belittling the genuine achievement of others when all you do is hide behind a screen and fire away thoughtless insults courtesy of your semen-stained keyboard jerkoff!
Hmm pray tell what then is your contribution to this country lady? Not serving NS? Contestant in SG's next top bitch?
At least he is already a big winner regardless in every sense of the word. What is your contribution to this nation? Unfunny sarcasm?
*rolls eyes*
A nice downgrade from gold to bronze-a flash in the pan? Anyways congratulations are still in order, though Schooling doesn't look all too pleased in that photo. Probably because he got schooled big time by Caeleb Dressel.