Olympic history of Singapore

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Singapore , whose NOK , the Singapore National Olympic Council , was founded in 1947 andrecognizedby the IOC in 1948, has been participating in the Summer Olympics since 1948. In 1964 Singapore was a part of the State of Malaysia , athletes from Singapore competed in Tokyo for Malaysia. After gaining independence from Malaysia, Singapore returned to its own team in 1968. In 1980 the call to boycott the Moscow Games was followed. Athletes from Singapore have not yet participated in the winter games.

Singapore hosted the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010. Young athletes from the city-state took part as hosts and also in the subsequent organization of the Youth Summer Games.

Overview

Singapore first took part in the Olympic Games in 1948 with a track and field athlete. The first Olympian was the high jumper Lloyd Valberg on July 30, 1948. On July 21, 1952, the track and field athlete Tang Pui Wah was the first woman in the country to take part in the Olympic Games.

In addition to athletics, the city-state's athletes were in the following sports swimming and weightlifting (from 1952), sailing, hockey, water polo and basketball (from 1956), shooting (from 1960), boxing (from 1972), judo (from 1976) , Fencing and badminton (from 1992), table tennis (from 1996), canoeing and gymnastics (from 2012) and rowing (from 2016).

The water polo team qualified for the Olympic tournament for the first time played in the preliminary round against the German team in 1956 and lost 5-1. After a 1: 7 against Italy and three more defeats in the final round, the team finished last. In 1960 the first Olympic medal was won. In weightlifting, Tan Howe Liang was second in the lightweight and won the silver medal.

Singapore only achieved success 40 years later at the Sydney 2000 Olympic table tennis tournament. In the women's singles, Chinese-born Jing Jun Hong reached the semi-finals. She lost both the semi-finals and the bronze medal game. Her teammate Li Jia Wei , also a native of China, was able to beat the Austrian Liu Jia , also a native of China, in the first final round .

In the 2004 badminton tournament in Athens, Ronald Susilo , a native of Indonesia, eliminated the German Björn Joppien in two sets in the second round of the men's singles . In the women's singles of the table tennis tournament, Li Jia Wei reached the semi-finals, but lost both the semi-finals and the bronze game, like Jing Jun Hong four years earlier.

In 2008, Li Jia Wei could not win a medal after reaching the semi-finals. However, she was able to win silver with the team, the first medal win in 48 years. The men's team lost 3-1 to the German team in the preliminary round and was eliminated with another defeat after the preliminary round. In swimming, Tao Li reached the finals over 100 meters butterfly and was fifth.

In 2012 in London there were two more medals in table tennis. In the women's singles, Feng Tianwei reached the semi-finals. In the round of 16, she defeated the Chinese Wu Jiaduo, who played for Germany, in six sets. The semi-final against the Chinese Ding Ning was lost in six sets, the bronze game against the Japanese Kasumi Ishikawa she won in four straight sets. The women's team lost 3-0 in the semi-finals against Japan, but won the bronze game against South Korea 3-0.

In 2016 Joseph Schooling achieved Singapore's first Olympic victory. The swimmer won the 100 meter butterfly competition. In table tennis, the women's team failed in the semifinals with 0: 3 to China. The bronze match against Japan was lost 3-1.

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  Tan Howe Liang, Singapore's first 1960 silver medalist in weightlifting, in 2008

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  The women's table tennis team with silver 2008 (from left to right): Wang Yuegu, Li Jia Wei, Feng Tianwei

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  Joseph Schooling, Singapore's first Olympic champion, here at the 2015 World Swimming Championships

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  Derek Wong Zi Liang, 2016 standard bearer

Youth games

Singapore hosted the first Summer Youth Olympic Games in 2010 . In February 2008 Singapore prevailed against the Russian capital Moscow with 53:44 votes . The first Youth Summer Games were held from August 14th to 26th, 2010. 3522 young athletes from 205 nations took part in 26 sports. The Games were opened by Singapore's President Sellapan Ramanathan . Show jumping rider Caroline Chew took the Olympic oath for the athletes, boxing referee Syed Abdul Kadir for the referees and swimming coach David Lim for the coaches. The Olympic flame was lit by the sailor Darren Choy.

A total of 129 youth athletes, 78 boys and 51 girls, from Singapore took part. Six medals, two silver and four bronze medals, could be won. The swimmer Rainer Ng won silver medals over 50 meters back and the table tennis player Isabelle Li in the women's singles. Bronze went to the taekwondo in Daryl Tan in the boys' bantamweight division and Shafinas Rahman in the girls' middleweight division, the sailor Audrey Yong in windsurfing and the boys' U-15 national football team. Another bronze medal was not included in the Singapore medal table. The archer Abdul Jaffar and his Turkish partner Begünhan Ünsal won bronze in the mixed teams.

In the second edition in 2014 in Nanjing , 18 youths, seven boys and eleven girls, took part. They competed in athletics, badminton, table tennis, diving, swimming, sailing, shooting, gymnastics and triathlon. Two Olympic victories could be celebrated in sailing. Bernie Chin won the boys and Samantha Yom the girls in boat class Byte CII. Another medal that is not included in Singapore's medal balance was won by sports shooter Xiu Yi Teh with her Egyptian partner Ahmed Mohamed. Both took silver in the mixed air pistol team.

Overview of the participants

Summer games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports																	Medals
	total	m	w																					total	rank
1896-1936	not participated
1948	1	1	0	Jocelyn de Souza	1
1952	5	4th	1	Thong Saw Pak	1	1	3
1956	49	47	2	Lionel Chee	4th		3	5	17th	10	10
1960	5	5	0				1	3				1										1		1	32
1964	Participation in the Olympic team of Malaysia
1968	4th	4th	0		1		2					1
1972	7th	5	2	Pat Chan	3	3							1
1976	4th	3	1	Koh Eng Kian	1		1					1		1
1980	not participated
1984	5	5	0	Ang Peng Siong		4th		1
1988	8th	7th	1	Ang Peng Siong		5		2				1
1992	14th	11	3			5		2				1		1	2	3
1996	14th	9	5	Lee Wung Yew	2	5		4th				1				1	1
2000	14th	8th	6th	Joscelin Yeo		8th		3				1					2
2004	16	6th	10	Ronald Susilo	2	5		1				1				3	4th
2008	25th	11	14th	Li Jia Wei	2	5		6th				1				5	6th					1		1	70
2012	23	8th	15th	Feng Tianwei	2	5	1	2				2				4th	6th	2	1				2	2	75
2016	25th	9	16	Derek Wong Zi Liang	2	2		10				2				2	5			1	1			1	54
total																					1	2	2	5	90

Winter games

year	Athletes			Flag bearer	sports	Medals
	total	m	w						total	rank
1924-2014	not participated
2018	1	0	1	Cheyenne Goh	1
total						0	0	0	0	-

List of medal winners

Gold medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Joseph Schooling	2016 Rio de Janeiro	swim	100 meter butterfly

Silver medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Tan Howe Liang	1960 Rome	Weightlifting	lightweight
Feng Tianwei Li Jia Wei Wang Yuegu	2008 Beijing	Table tennis	Ladies team

Bronze medals

Surname	Games	sport	discipline
Feng Tianwei	2012 London	Table tennis	Ladies singles
Feng Tianwei Li Jia Wei Wang Yuegu	2012 London	Table tennis	Ladies team

Medals by sport

sport	gold	silver	bronze	total
swim	1	0	0	1
Table tennis	0	1	2	3
Weightlifting	0	1	0	1
total	1	2	2	5

Web links

• Singapore in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )
• Singapore on Olympic.org  - The Official website of the Olympic movement (English)
• Website of the SNOC