Kayla Sanchez anchors PH team to 4x100m freestyle gold in smashing SEA Games debut

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Olympic medalist Kayla Sanchez along with Xiandi Chua, Chloe Isleta, and Heather White, swim their way to the gold medal at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games.  Full story: https://www.rappler.com/sports/southeast-asian-games/kayla-sanchez-xiandi-chua-chloe-isleta-heather-white-philippines-gold-swimming-4x100m-freestyle-relay-december-10-2025/

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00:00Olympic medalist Kayla Sanchez, along with Sandy Chua, Chloe Ayletta, and Heather White,

00:06swim their way to the gold medal at the 2025 Southeast Asian Games.

00:10The team clocks 3 minutes and 44 seconds in the women's 4x100m freestyle relay to Best Singapore,

00:16which has ruled the event since 2015. Sanchez won an Olympic silver with Canada in the Tokyo Games

00:22in 2021 in the same event. This was two years before she officially switched to represent the

00:27Philippines. The Philippines' swimming team bags two medals on day one of the competitions,

00:32with Gian Christopher Santos getting silver in the men's 200-meter medley. In Jiu-Jitsu,

00:37the Philippines secures two gold medals with Dean Rojas and Kimberly Ann Custodio topping their

00:42respective categories. Meanwhile, Aaliyah Finnegan earns the first gymnastics gold medal for the

00:47Philippines following her triumph in the women's vault. The Olympian replicates her golden feet in

00:52the vault in the 2021 Vietnam edition.

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