SINGAPORE – Toh Wei Soong made waves in the pool again as he claimed Singapore’s first medal at the Aichi-Nagoya Asian Para Games in Japan on Oct 19.

At the Nagoya City General Gymnasium, he touched the wall in 5min 24.23sec to clinch a bronze in the men’s 400m freestyle S7 final, behind the Philippines’ Ernie Gawilan’s 4:56.72 and China’s Zhang Yilong (5:01.36).

At the Hangzhou Games in 2023, Toh bagged a silver behind Gawilan in the same event.

The 28-year-old, who is coming off the back of winning a silver at the Commonwealth Games in July, adds to his five Asiad golds, one silver and a bronze, won at the last two editions of the quadrennial event.

Toh is pencilled in for five events in Japan and will next compete in the 100m free S7 final on Oct 20.

In the women’s 100m free S13 final, Sophie Soon who swims in the S11 category, finished last out of six, clocking 1:20.45.

Japan’s Ayano Tsujiuchi took home gold in a Games record of 1:00.84, ahead of Uzbeks Mubinabonu Khalilova (1:01.23) and Muslima Odilova (1:02.35).

In the men’s 100m free S13 final, Wong Zhi Wei missed out on a podium spot, clocking 58.55sec to finish fourth out of fifth, behind Uzbekistan’s Egor Bolotov (52.90sec), India’s Ravi Karthik Budigina (56.68sec) and Kazakh Viktor Volkov (57.23sec).