Joseph Schooling

Joseph Schooling
PJG

Schooling at 2015 World Championships
Personal information
Full name	Joseph Isaac Schooling
National team	Singapore
Born	(1995-06-16) 16 June 1995 (age 21) Singapore
Height	1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight	78 kg (172 lb)
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Butterfly, freestyle, medley
College team	University of Texas (US)
Medal record Representing  Singapore Event 1st 2nd 3rd Olympic Games 1 0 0 World Championships (LC) 0 0 1 Commonwealth Games 0 1 0 Asian Games 1 1 1 Southeast Asian Games 17 1 1 Total 19 3 3 Olympic Games 2016 Rio de Janeiro 100 m butterfly World Championships (LC) 2015 Kazan 100 m butterfly Asian Games 2014 Incheon 100 m butterfly 2014 Incheon 50 m butterfly 2014 Incheon 200 m butterfly Commonwealth Games 2014 Glasgow 100 m butterfly Southeast Asian Games 2011 Palembang 50 m butterfly 2011 Palembang 200 m butterfly 2013 Naypyidaw 100 m butterfly 2013 Naypyidaw 200 m butterfly 2013 Naypyidaw 200 m medley 2013 Naypyidaw 4×100 m freestyle 2013 Naypyidaw 4×100 m medley 2013 Naypyidaw 4×200 m freestyle 2015 Singapore 50 m butterfly 2015 Singapore 100 m butterfly 2015 Singapore 200 m butterfly 2015 Singapore 50 m freestyle 2015 Singapore 100 m freestyle 2015 Singapore 200 m medley 2015 Singapore 4x100 m medley 2015 Singapore 4x100 m freestyle 2015 Singapore 4×200 m freestyle 2011 Palembang 200 m medley 2011 Palembang 100 m butterfly

Joseph Isaac Schooling (born 16 June 1995) is a Singaporean swimmer. He is the gold medallist in the 100 m butterfly at the 2016 Olympics, attaining Singapore's first-ever Olympic gold. His winning time of 50.39 seconds is a National, Asian, and Olympic record.

He is currently studying at the University of Texas at Austin, where he is a member of the Texas Longhorns swimming team, one of the top collegiate swim programmes under two-time United States Olympic men's head coach Eddie Reese. He first qualified for the Olympics in 2012 after winning the 200 m butterfly at the 2011 SEA Games.

At The Straits Times (ST) Singaporean of the Year 2016 award ceremony held at UBS Business University, on 6 Feb 2017, the Schooling family beat 11 other contenders, to the prestigious award. Deputy Prime Minister and Coordinating Minister for Economic and Social Policies Tharman Shanmugaratnam presented May and Colin Schooling with the Singaporean of the Year trophy and a S$20,000 cash prize. Joseph Schooling, who was unable to attend the ceremony due to school and training commitments in the United States, thanked Singaporeans for their support and congratulated his fellow award nominees in a video message. He paid tribute to his parents who played a significant role to groom him to where he is today.

Joseph Schooling, born and raised in Singapore, is a third-generation Singaporean. Joseph Schooling is the only child of May and Colin Schooling, and is of Eurasian ethnicity. May is a Chinese Malaysian and a Singapore Permanent Resident who had represented the Malaysian state of Perak in tennis; while Colin, a businessman born in Singapore and educated at Raffles Institution, was a hurdler and water polo player who represented Singapore in softball. His grand-uncle, Lloyd Valberg, was Singapore's first Olympian in the 1948 Summer Olympics. Schooling's great grandfather was a British military officer who married a Portuguese-Eurasian in Singapore.