1. Joseph Isaac Schooling was born on 16 June 1995 and is a Singaporean former professional swimmer who specialised in butterfly, freestyle, and medley events.
51 Facts About Joseph Schooling
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Joseph Schooling was the gold medalist in the 100m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics, achieving Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal.
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Joseph Schooling's winning time of 50.39s broke multiple records at the National, Southeast Asian, Asian, and Olympic levels.
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Joseph Schooling's grand-uncle was Lloyd Valberg, who took part in the 1948 Summer Olympics as Singapore's first Olympian.
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Joseph Schooling was the one who inspired Schooling to participate in the Olympic Games.
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Joseph Schooling's great-grandfather was a British military officer who married a Portuguese-Eurasian in Singapore.
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Joseph Schooling next attended Anglo-Chinese School at Dover, before attending the Bolles School in 2009 at Jacksonville, Florida, United States.
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In 2010, Joseph Schooling started training under Sergio Lopez Miro, who later on in 2015 would become Singapore's national head coach.
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Joseph Schooling won two individual titles at the 2015 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships.
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Joseph Schooling teamed up with Kip Darmody, Will Licon, and Jack Conger to break the NCAA and US Open records.
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Joseph Schooling successfully defended his butterfly titles, setting both NCAA and US open records of 44.01 in the 100-yard butterfly and 1:37.97 in the 200-yard butterfly at the 2016 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships.
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Joseph Schooling won golds as a member of the 200 and 800-yard freestyle relays and the 400-yard medley relay.
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Joseph Schooling's silver came from the 400-yard freestyle relay and bronze from the 200-yard medley relay.
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Joseph Schooling obtained four gold medals, a silver, and a bronze medal at the 2017 NCAA Division I Men's Swimming and Diving Championships.
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Joseph Schooling started off his individual campaign with a bronze in the 50-yard freestyle in 18.79 behind Caeleb Dressel and Ryan Held.
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Joseph Schooling was unable to defend his butterfly titles, finishing behind Dressel in the 100-yard butterfly in 43.75.
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Joseph Schooling ended his collegiate career at the University of Texas with 12 NCAA titles.
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At the 2011 Southeast Asian Games, Joseph Schooling's 1:56.67 winning time in the 200 fly met the "A" qualifying mark for the 2012 London Olympics.
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Joseph Schooling is the first Singaporean to win a swimming medal at the Commonwealth Games, taking silver in the 100 m butterfly at the 2014 games in Glasgow.
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Joseph Schooling's timing of 51.76 seconds was a new Asian Games record.
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Joseph Schooling had earlier won a bronze for the 200 m butterfly event, ending a 24-year medal drought for Singapore's male swimming event.
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Joseph Schooling followed that by winning a silver in the 50 m butterfly event.
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At the 2015 SEA Games held in Singapore, Joseph Schooling took part in nine events, achieving gold and breaking Games records in all of them.
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Joseph Schooling continued with his streak of achievements in the 2015 World Aquatics Championships.
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On 12 August 2016, in Rio de Janeiro, Joseph Schooling won a gold medal in the 100 m butterfly with a time of 50.39 seconds, the first Olympic gold medal won by Singapore.
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The time was a personal best, a national record, an Asian record, and the fastest time then-recorded in 2016 for the event, but only for a day as Joseph Schooling improved his time in the final.
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However, Joseph Schooling received his country's award as it fell within the NCAA exception of awards to foreign students.
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Joseph Schooling came in at No 4, after Hungarian Katinka Hosszu, American Katie Ledecky, and Briton Adam Peaty.
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Joseph Schooling broke his own Asian record twice in the 50 m butterfly heats and semi-finals.
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Joseph Schooling clocked 22.95 sec in the finals to finish 5th.
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Joseph Schooling missed out on 100 m freestyle semi-final after finishing 17th in the heats.
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Joseph Schooling obtained a joint-Bronze medal with Briton James Guy with a time of 50.83 sec.
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Joseph Schooling won all his events and broke four South-east Asian records.
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Joseph Schooling participated in 3 individual events and 3 relays.
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Joseph Schooling successfully defended his 100 m butterfly Gold with a new Asian Games record of 51.04 seconds.
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Joseph Schooling later won Singapore's second Gold in the 50 m butterfly.
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Joseph Schooling did not qualify for the semi-finals for all his events.
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Joseph Schooling lost the 50 m butterfly to Teong Tzen Wei and the 100m freestyle to Darren Chua.
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Joseph Schooling did not defend his 100m butterfly title at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics after failing to qualify for the semi-finals, finishing 8th in his heat.
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Joseph Schooling placed 44th overall with a time of 53.12 seconds.
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Joseph Schooling failed to qualify for the 100m freestyle semi-finals after finishing 6th in his Heat and 39th overall with a time of 49.84 seconds.
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Joseph Schooling competed in his first SEA Games since enlisting for mandatory National Service in Singapore at the 31st SEA Games held in Hanoi, Vietnam.
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Joseph Schooling however went on to win two golds and a bronze medal in the 100m butterfly, 4x100m medley, and the 4x200m freestyle relay respectively.
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Joseph Schooling remains unbeaten in the 100m butterfly since the 2013 SEA Games, winning his fifth consecutive gold medal in the event.
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Joseph Schooling was excluded from the final list of athletes set to represent Singapore at the 2022 Asian Games in Hangzhou, China.
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Joseph Schooling withdrew from participating in the 2023 SEA Games held in Phnom Penh, Cambodia.
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On 20 August 2023, responding to media queries on his omission from the 2022 Asian Games, Joseph Schooling remarked that it was "definitely was a bummer", adding that he was still undecided about his future.
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On 27 June 2018, Joseph Schooling launched his swimming school called Swim Joseph Schooling.
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In September 2024, Joseph Schooling joined Vertex Holdings as an associate.
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In October 2016, Joseph Schooling received the Pingat Jasa Gemilang for his exceptional achievements at the 2016 Summer Olympics by winning Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal in the men's 100m butterfly.
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On 7 August 2017, an Orchid was named after Schooling; Dendrobium Joseph Schooling is a "vigorous and free flowering" hybrid with yellow and slightly twisted petals.