BANGKOK – Singapore swimmer Letitia Sim underlined her status as South-east Asia’s queen of breaststroke when she won the women’s 200m breaststroke final at the Huamark Aquatic Center to become the first to complete the SEA Games hat-trick in her stroke.

No one has achieved the feat since the 50m event was added to the programme in 2011. Sim had missed out in 2023 and 2022, when she finished second in the 50m and 200m respectively.