1956 Summer Olympics / Participant (Singapore)

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Singapore participated in the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, Australia, with a delegation of 49 athletes, 47 men and two women, in 13 competitions in six sports.

The youngest athlete was the sprinter Kesavan Soon (18 years and 18 days), the oldest athlete was the sailor Ned Holiday (56 years and 62 days). It was the country's third participation in the Summer Olympics . The standard bearer was the water polo player Lionel Chee .

Participants by sport

basketball

Men's

• Results

  Main round: Group B, three points, 154: 257 points, fourth place, not qualified for the final

  54:81 defeat against France

  58:85 loss to Canada

  42:91 defeat against the Soviet Union

  Play for places 9–15: Group 1, four points, 200: 215 points, third place

  64:67 defeat against the Republic of China (Taiwan)

  62:50 win against Thailand

  74:98 loss to Australia

  Game for places 13 and 14

  92:79 victory against South Korea

  Rank 13

• Squad

  Sho Fa Chen

  Jerome Henderson

  Lien Siew Ho

  Tai Chuen Ko

  Chak Men Lee

  Kiat Guan Ong

  Tian Siak Wee

  Kim Poh Wong

  Tit Kwan Yee

  Gek Huat Yeo

Weightlifting

Men's

• Howe Liang Tan
  • lightweight

  Final: 350.0 kg, ninth place

  Military press: 107.5 kg, ninth place

  Tear: 100.0 kg, eleventh place

  Push: 142.5 kg, fifth place

• Ser Cher Tan
  • Featherweight

  Final: 315.0 kg, seventh place

  Military press: 92.5 kg, ninth place

  Tear: 92.5 kg, eleventh place

  Push: 130.0 kg, second place

• Kay Poh Wong
  • medium weight

  Final: 365.0 kg, ninth place

  Military press: 107.5 kg, ninth place

  Tear: 112.5 kg, sixth place

  Push: 145.0 kg, sixth place

hockey

Men's

• Results

  Main round: Group A, four points, 11-7 goals, second place, not qualified for the semi-finals

  6-1 win over the United States of America

  Goals: Percy Pennefather (3 ×), Rudy Mosbergen, Arumugam Vijiaratnam, Michael Wright

  5-0 win against Afghanistan

  Goals: Percy Pennefather (2 ×), Hon Yam Chai, Osbert de Rozario, Fred Fernandez

  0: 6 loss to India

  Play for places five to eight: zero points, 0:23 points

  0:13 loss to New Zealand

  0: 5 defeat against Belgium

  0: 5 loss to Australia

  Eighth place

• Squad

  Hon Yam Chai

  Burdette Coutts

  Osbert de Rozario

  Vellupillai Devadas

  Edwin Doraisamy

  Fred Fernandez

  Ajit Singh Gill

  Abdullah Hamid

  William Hay

  S. Jeyathurai

  Rudy Mosbergen

  Percy Pennefather

  Richard Schoon

  Roy Sharma

  Sinnadurai Vellupillai

  Arumugam Vijiaratnam

  Michael Wright

athletics

Ladies

• Janet Jesudason
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (fifth place), 13.2 seconds (hand-stopped), 13.41 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Mary Class
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run two (seventh place), 12.6 seconds (hand-stopped), 12.57 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run one (fourth place), 26.3 seconds (hand-stopped), 26.37 seconds (stopped automatically)

Men's

• Kesevan Soon
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run four (fourth place), 11.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.35 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • 200 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run eight (fifth place), 23.0 seconds (hand-stopped), 23.33 seconds (automatically stopped)

• Tan Eng Yoon
  • 100 meter run

  Round one: eliminated in run nine (fourth place), 11.4 seconds (hand-stopped), 11.63 seconds (automatically stopped)

  • Triple jump

  Qualifying round: eliminated without a valid distance

  Attempt one: invalid

  Attempt two: invalid

  Try three: invalid

sailing

Gentlemen
kites

• Results

  Final: 926 points, 16th place

  Race one: 159 points, 3:17:85 hours, 14th place

  Race two: 159 points, 3:20:20 hours, 14th place

  Race three: 191 points, 4:15:47 hours, 13th place

  Race four: competition not finished (DNF)

  Race five: 129 points, 3:07:20 hours, 15th place

  Race six: 159 points, 4:22:25 hours, 14th place

  Race seven: 129 points, 3:17:20 hours, 15th place

• team

  Kenneth Golding

  Robert Ho

  Ned Holiday

  Keith Johnson

singles

• Jack Snowden
  • Finn dinghy

  Final: 2,354 points, 14th place

  Race one: 288 points, 3:35:28 hours, 13th place

  Race two: 800 points, 3:39:31 hours, fourth place

  Race three: 256 points, 3:51:34 hours, 14th place

  Race four: 361 points, 3:20:14 hours, eleventh place

  Race five: 361 points, 3:35:25 hours, eleventh place

  Race six: 198 points, 3:32:06 hours, 16th place

  Race seven: 288 points, 3:25:20 hours, 13th place

Water polo

Men's

• Results
• Squad

  Lionel Chee

  Eng Teck Gan

  David Lim

  Teck Pan Lim

  Chwee Hock Oh

  Tight goat Tan

  Gim Hock Thio

  Skip Wolters

  Wiebe Wolters

  Eric Yeo

Web links

• Singapore Olympic team from 1956 in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original ).