Singapore improved on its last SEA Games result and won over half the available gold medals, 23 out of 38, to be the first in swimming events again with a total of 37 medals. Singapore won all the relay events and set 13 Games records and seven Singaporean national records. Vietnam finished in second with 10 gold medals and 25 medals in total.
A total of 20 Games records and 35 national records were broken.
Medal ceremony for the men's 4×100 m freestyle relay.Medal ceremony for the women's 4×200 m freestyle relay.Filipino swimmer Chloe Isleta (left) competes in the women's 200m backstroke