The Texas-based Schooling won the 50-meter butterfly in 23.49 seconds and the 200-meter individual medley in 2 minutes, 0.66 seconds '€” both meet records '€” on Wednesday, lifting his personal tally to eight gold medals. That would place him just three behind Myanmar, and way out ahead of Cambodia, Laos, Brunei and East Timor in the medal standings.

He's winning them at a rate of two per night, and still has one event to go in what is essentially a home-town warmup for the world championships, which start next month in Russia.

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Not to be outdone, Nguyen Thi Anh Vien collected her seventh gold medal of the competition for Vietnam with a games record 4:08.66 '€” and an Olympic qualifying time '€” in the 400 freestyle. She also has a silver medal and a bronze for nine medals from 10 events, and she still has one to go.

Her haul has helped keep Vietnam in second spot in the medal standings behind, not surprisingly, Singapore. The host nation had 60 gold '€” 10 more than its previous record '€” and 175 overall late on Wednesday night. Vietnam had 48, three more than Thailand, and 21 more than fourth-place Malaysia. Indonesia had 22 and Philippines had 21, 10 clear of seventh-place Myanmar. Cambodia had one gold medal, while Laos, Brunei and East Timor still hadn't topped a podium.

Filipino-American Eric Shawn Cray was back on top of the podium 24 hours after winning the men's 100-meter sprint at the National Stadium, running 49.40 to win his more favored 400-meter hurdles in a games record time.

Vietnam won five of the 12 track and field finals on the second night of athletics competition, while Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore picked up two each.

Veronica Shanti Pereira won the women's 200 final in a personal best 23.60 seconds for the host nation, holding out 100-meter champion Kayla Richardson, a California-based high school sprinter representing the Philippines.

Filipino boxers won five of the 11 gold on offer in the boxing, starting with 2012 world champion Josie Gabuco's victory to earn her fourth SEA Games title. Gabuco beat Raksat Chuthamat, an up-and-comer from Thailand, 3-0 for the gold medal. Vietnam finished with three golds and one silver medal, and Thailand won two titles.

"It's hard for me. She was also a good boxer '€” the last world championships, she got a bronze medal," said Gabuco, who added that the fourth gold was the sweetest after a 2014 campaign in which she lost at the world championships, the Asian Games and the China Open.

Vietnamese women won two split decisions against Filipino boxers, with Nguyen Thi Yen beating Irish Magno in the flyweight class, and Le Thi Bang narrowly edging Nesthy Petecio, before Thailand's Thongjan Tassamalee had a 3-0 win over Indonesia's Christina Jembay in the heaviest of the women's divisions.

Indonesia's Kornelis Kwangu Langu won the men's light flyweight class before Filipino fighters won four of the next five finals '€” including golds for Ian Clarke Bautista, former world junior champion Eumire Marcial, Mario Fernandez and Junel Cantancio. Truong Dinh Hoang of Vietnam finished off the program with a 3-0 win over Khankhokkhruea Aphisiti of Thailand in the middleweight final.

In the badminton, former No. 1-ranked Lee Chong Wei, coming back from a shortened suspension for a doping infraction, led Malaysia to a 3-0 win over Cambodia in the quarterfinals of the team competition. (++++)

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