Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee smashes 1,500 freestyle national record, through to final at World Aquatics Champs

CNA

28-07-2025

SINGAPORE: Nearly 24 hours after smashing a 15-year national record on home soil, Singapore's Gan Ching Hwee was at it again as she rewrote her own 1,500m freestyle national record at the World Aquatics Championships on Monday (Jul 28).
At the World Aquatics Championships Arena in Kallang, the 22-year-old clocked a time of 16:01.29 to eclipse her previous record of 16:10.13, which was set at the 2024 Paris Olympics.
She finished fourth overall and qualified for the final – the first Singaporean female swimmer to do so since Tao Li in 2007.
On Sunday, Gan clocked a time of 4:09.81 in the women's 400m freestyle, breaking Lynette Lim's national mark that was set at the December 2009 SEA Games.
She finished 13th overall in the heats, with Canada's Summer McIntosh winning the event.
Gan has been in fine form in recent times.
At last year's Paris Olympics, she set two national records in the 800m freestyle and 1500m freestyle. She was the first Singaporean female swimmer to do so at the Games since Tao Li (100m backstroke) in 2012.
Gan will next turn her attention to the 200m freestyle on Tuesday.