Gian Santos bags silver in swimming event in SEA Games debut
Gian Santos clocks in 2:03:88 to finish silver in the men’s 200m individual medley in swimming at the 33rd Southeast Asian Games in Thailand on Dec. 10, 2025.
POC MEDIA
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00:00When you're having this award, what does it mean to you?
00:04It definitely means a lot to me. This has been my first C Games and also first event of C Games, my first medal.
00:10I'm very grateful because I put a lot of hard work into this since qualifying for C Games in August.
00:15I've been training for 3 months, doing 10 practices a week for 7 days a week, lifting 3 times a week.
00:20So I'm glad that all the hard work has paid off.
00:23How did you find the race? Was it more difficult to find your opponents faster or humanity?
00:28I definitely found my opponents faster than I expected, but I kind of expected that people would kind of relax a little bit for prelims and go much faster at finals.
00:37So it's something I anticipated and something I tried to replicate by going easy with them in the prelims and also trying to master speed in the finals.
00:44In your next event, how hungry are you to finish with your silver this time to get that goal?
00:50I think it definitely depends on my opponents at the moment, but in every race I just give it my best.
00:57I give it my best year. I'll give them the best in the 4am and the 200 free and we'll see what happens.
01:01But regardless, I will always put in my best effort and whatever results I have, I'll be satisfied with.
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