A month later at the FINA World Championships, Teong completed eighth in the 50m butterfly final. To the championship competition, Teong set a private best of 23. 03sec in the semi-final, the best time set by an Asian swimmer in the event this year. He seemed to be the only Asian consultant in the final.
Competing in both the 50m butterfly and 50m freestyle events at the Commonwealth Games, look to the particular explosive swimmer to higher his timings and continue his stellar form.
2 . Loh Kean Yew
After a flutter second half of 2021 that culminated within him being crowned badminton world champion, 2022 has proved a tougher task for 25-year-old Loh Kean Yew.
Currently ninth in the world rankings, Loh dropped just short of an elusive SEA Video games singles gold in-may and most recently missed out on the finals of the Singapore Open.
But the Commonwealth Online games men’s singles can present the perfect opportunity for him to win his first competition of the year.
This is Loh’s 2nd Commonwealth Games, and he will look to be only the second Singaporean to reach the men’s singles final since Derek Wong in 2014.