SEA GAMES 2019

Team Singapore report card ALOYSIUS ONG, 18,

softball
First gold in the sport

NEW HUI FEN, 27,

bowling
DARREN CHUA, 19, PETER GILCHRIST, 51,
swimming cue sports
6th straight gold

QUAH TING WEN, 27,

swimming

QUAH JING WEN, 18,

swimming

SENI REGU SILAT TRIO

First artistic team gold

G S B Total Grade The Straits Times’ assessment G S B Total Grade The Straits Times’ assessment

Archery 0 0 0 0 B- Only compound events were contested. Contessa Loh came closest
to the podium, making it to the bronze-medal match. Muay thai 0 0 1 1 B Another sport with only two athletes and one, Lena Tan, bagged a
bronze.
Poor performance save for three bronzes, down from 2-2-4 in 2017, With only a third of the team having Games experience, it was
Athletics 0 0 3 3 D amid reports of infighting in the relay teams. Netball 0 1 0 1 B+ always a tall order to dethrone Malaysia in the final.

Badminton 0 1 2 3
B
Loh Kean Yew’s brave run to the men’s singles final was the
highlight but, in the women’s camp, Yeo Jia Min admitted the need
Open-water
swimming
0 0 0 0 C+ This is the first time the athletes have not won a medal in the past
three editions that the sport has featured in.
to improve physically and mentally.
After two silvers in 2017, this time the men lost the bronze play-off
Rugby 7s 0 0 0 0
Baseball 0 0 0 0 B-
This was Singapore’s Games debut so no surprise as they finished
fourth.
C to Thailand, while the women finished fifth out of six teams and
won only once in the round robin.
The damage came in the group defeat by a Vietnam side boosted Sailing/ Ryan Lo retained his Laser Standard title. But to maintain the
Basketball 0 0 0 0
C+ by foreign-born players. The Singapore men recovered to beat windsurfing
1 5 0 6
B four-gold tally from 2017 was always going to be tough, given that
Malaysia for fifth place. most of the sailing classes were different.

Bowling 3 1 4 8
A
The women made a statement by reclaiming the team title and
New Hui Fen dominated with the singles and Masters golds. The Sambo 1 2 3 6 A This was a competition to remember – walking away with one gold,
two silvers and three bronzes in the sport’s Games debut.
men gave a creditable performance.
Sepak 0 0 0 0 C They were without a medal for a second consecutive Games.
Boxing 0 0 1 1 C While they had three bronzes in 2017, they have only one this time. takraw
With Olympic hopefuls and big guns like Jasmine Ser, Martina
Canoe/ 0 0 0 0
All five were debutants racing in seawater conditions for the first Shooting 0 1 4 5
B- Veloso and Tessa Neo absent, the shooters fired golden blanks for
kayaking C+ time. Only Lim Yuan Yin made two finals and narrowly missed out
on a medal.
the first time since 1991.

To be able to match 2017’s two-gold haul despite the cut in events

Chess 1 0 0 0 A One athlete, one event, one gold. Against some of the region’s top, Silat 2 1 2 5 A from 20 to nine is admirable. Singapore won their first team gold in
full-time players, Gong Qianyun was superb under pressure. an artistic event.

Cue sports 1 1 6 8
B
As the gold count dropped from three to one, while the medals
doubled to eight, sole gold medallist Peter Gilchrist remains the
Skate-
boarding
0 0 0 0 B- There were no medals, although Nur Farah Atika Abdullah came
close in finishing fourth in the women’s street category.
standard-bearer.
The men overcame the odds to beat regional powerhouses
Cycling 0 1 2 3 B+ With no track events, where Singapore had a 1-1-1 haul in 2017, one
silver and two bronzes in road cycling is commendable.
Softball 1 0 0 1
A Philippines twice en route to a historic gold. The women were
fourth out of five teams.
No golds. But one silver and four bronzes across all three styles With the doubles events axed, it was always going to be tough to
Dancesport 0 1 4 5 B+ was a major breakthrough from the 2005 and 2007 drought. Squash 0 2 3 5 B match the three golds from 2017. Still, they did well to clinch two
silvers and three bronzes.
With a reduced roster, the divers put in a commendable
Diving 0 1 2 3 B performance with medals in three of the four events.
Surfing 0 0 0 0 B- No medals but it was always going to be hard for an inexperienced
team against giants Philippines and Indonesia.
E-sports 0 1 1 2 B No golds. But the athletes delivered the country’s first Games
medals in the sport – one silver and one bronze.
23 10 4 37
A great performance with a record away gold haul of 23 that
Singapore’s best Games showing sent them atop the fencing tally.
Swimming
A+ matched the best tally from Singapore 2015. The young guns did
well as the squad won 60.5 per cent of the 38 titles.
Fencing 4 3 6 13 A+
The doubles misadventures were mitigated by all-Singapore finals
Both teams had been heavy favourites. The women delivered, the Table tennis 2 3 2 7 B+ in the singles events, with 17-year-old Koen Pang’s triumph a
Floorball 1 1 0 2 B men did not. pleasant surprise.

Football 0 0 0 0
F
A real let-down on and off the pitch. The Young Lions failed to
score in four games and, to make matters worse, nine of their 20 Taekwondo 0 1 0 1 B Ng Ming Wei’s silver in the men’s Under-58kg was the lone medal,
an upgrade on a bronze from 2017.
players broke curfew during the tournament.
The quarter-finals were the furthest they went so it is a dip from
Kudos for a first men’s individual gold in 30 years from James Tennis 0 0 0 0 C the single bronze in 2017.
Golf 1 1 0 2 A- Leow, while the new-look men’s team fought bravely against
Thailand but failed to retain their title. Traditional
boat race
0 0 0 0 C+ While their target was two podium finishes, they knew it would be
tough with competition from Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia.
With just one bronze this time, it is a far cry from their haul of two
Gymnastics 0 0 1 1 B- silvers and three bronzes in 2017. Triathlon/ 0 2 0 2 B It was the two young mixed-relay teams that shone with two
duathlon silvers, with no medals in the individual events.
In tough competition, they lost all their games and finished last.
Beach
handball
0 0 0 0 C Underwater 4 0 0 4 A+ The Philippines have a rich history in the sport so, for Singapore to
hockey pocket all four golds, is a breathtaking achievement.
Ice hockey 0 1 0 1 A- They improved on their medal-less finish in 2017 to reach the final,
where they lost to a formidable Thai team. For the men’s indoor team, there was no improvement from 2015 –
Volleyball 0 0 0 0 C+ three defeats in three. In the beach version, it went slightly better –
New ground was broken as Singapore won its first short-track the men made it to the bronze match while the women were last.
Ice skating 4 0 1 5
A speed skating golds – three. Figure skating added one more for the
Republic to top the joint tally with four of the eight titles. Wakeboard/
waterski
0 0 1 1 B Not as successful as previous campaigns but credit to 13-year-old
Nur Alysha Rizwan who snagged their sole bronze.
Indoor
hockey
0 0 2 2 B Joint-bronzes for both the men and women put them one step up
from their 2017 performance of one bronze. Not only did the men relinquish their 52-year grip on the gold, but
A silver and two bronzes make it an improvement from the 2017
Water polo 0 1 1 2
C they were also only good enough for the bronze in one of the
biggest shocks. The women were beaten to gold – by Thailand.
Judo 0 1 2 3
B result of one bronze.
An improved performance with three joint-bronzes.
Impressive showing in a campaign reaping two golds, one silver and Wrestling 0 0 3 3 B
Jiu-jitsu 2 1 4 7 A four bronzes, with seven of the nine fighters winning medals.
Their tally of one gold and one bronze pales in comparison to their
Fifty per cent return for the two-man team, as a gritty battle Wushu 1 1 0 2 B haul in the past few Games.
Kurash 0 1 0 1
B+ through pain earned Joel Tseng a silver.

Lawn The women’s triples team ended the sport’s two-decade wait for
bowling
1 0 1 2 A gold.
TOTAL 53 46 68 167
Modern Delivered on its two-bronze target despite events being
B
PHOTOS: SINGAPORE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COUNCIL,
0 0 2 2 compressed into fewer days because of Typhoon Kammuri.
pentathlon LIANHE ZAOBAO, SPORT SINGAPORE, REUTERS
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