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B Div Swimming: Quah Zheng Wen of ACS (Independent) continues record breaking ways

Ian Chew — Fri, 27 Apr 2012 01:49:38 +0000

Anglo Chinese School (Independent)’s Quah Zheng Wen continued his record breaking ways with a sub 2 min timing for his B Division boys 200m butterfly final win. … [visit site to read more]

C Div Swimming (Girls): Sports School’s Hoong En Qi makes waves with debut swim

Ian Chew — Thu, 26 Apr 2012 11:38:30 +0000

Singapore Sports School’s Hoong En Qi broke the Girls’ C Division 50m butterfly record en route to a double win. … [visit site to read more]

Swimming (Girls): Bittersweet experience for Raffles in the relays

Ian Chew — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 22:01:44 +0000

The Raffles family dominated the freestyle girls relay events with wins in the A, B and C division but was disqualified in the A and B medley relays. … [visit site to read more]

C Div Swimming: New sprint king, Darren Lim of ACS (BR), rules with record-breaking freestyle swims

Ian Chew — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 15:05:51 +0000

New sprint king Darren Lim Fang Yue of Anglo Chinese School (Barker Road) stamped his class in the premier 50m and 100m Boys’ C Division freestyle sprint events with emphatic wins. … [visit site to read more]

B Div Swimming: Lim Ching Hwang of Sports School smashes records in freestyle wins

Ian Chew — Wed, 25 Apr 2012 13:16:18 +0000

Sports School’s new swim sensation Lim Ching Hwang outpaces fellow competitors with record breaking swims in the 100m and 200m freestyle finals. … [visit site to read more]

Singapore to host inaugural Southeast Asia Swimming Championships in June

Red Sports reader — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:49:16 +0000

Singapore will be the venue for the first ever Southeast Asia Swimming Championships 2012 (SEA Swimming Championships 2012), the Singapore Swimming Association (SSA) announced. … [visit site to read more]

Tao Li is top earner from SEA Games under SNOC awards scheme

Colin Tung — Sat, 11 Feb 2012 07:50:48 +0000

Swimmer Tao Li earned herself S$41,250 from the recent 26th Southeast Asian (SEA) Games in Indonesia. … [visit site to read more]

ASEAN Para Games: Singapore’s Tay Wei Ming defends badminton singles title

Les Tan — Tue, 20 Dec 2011 04:15:32 +0000

Defending champion Tay Wei Ming beat Tran Minh Nhuan of Vietnam 2-1 (14-21, 21-17, 21-8) to win the BMSTU4 men’s singles final at the 6th ASEAN Para Games. Team Singapore athletes bagged two fold, seven silver and two bronze medals from the day’s action and the contingent remain in seventh position with a total of nine gold, 10 silver and nine bronze. … [visit site to read more]

ASEAN Para Games: Swimmers win 3 more gold while bowlers bring in 1

Les Tan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:25:05 +0000

Singapore added three gold medals to their haul with another new record set in the pool today while our bowlers won a gold. Team Singapore is in seventh place in the overall medal tally with seven gold, three silver and seven bronze. … [visit site to read more]

ASEAN Para Games: Singapore swimmers rule the pool

Les Tan — Mon, 19 Dec 2011 03:04:00 +0000

Swimming was the main contributor of medals at the 6th ASEAN Para games today. Collecting a total of six medals, our para-swimming team performed very well and lived up to expectations. … [visit site to read more]

ASEAN Para Games: Swimmer Theresa Goh and bowler Ismail Hussein win Singapore’s first two golds

Les Tan — Sat, 17 Dec 2011 04:58:54 +0000

Swimmer Teresa Goh won Singapore’s first gold medal at the 6th ASEAN Para Games. A second Singapore gold followed when bowler Mohamed Ismail B. Hussein took top spot in his TPB3 singles event with 990 pinfalls. … [visit site to read more]

Inaugural Singapore National Games slated for September 2012

Les Tan — Sat, 26 Nov 2011 12:01:23 +0000

The multi-sports competition will be held once every two years and the 2012 edition will pit community teams against each other in 10 sports — Athletics, Badminton, Basketball, Bowling, Dragon Boat, Football, Netball, Sepak Takraw, Swimming and Table Tennis. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Swimming: Singapore emerge as kings and queens of pool with best gold haul since 1975

Erwin Wong — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 09:17:00 +0000

Singapore’s swimmers splashed their way to 17 gold, 9 silver and 13 bronze medals at the 26th South-east Asian Games in Palembang, Indonesia. It was the most number of swimming golds won at the biannual gammes since 1975, when Singapore emerged first in 17 events as well. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Day 7: Singapore in action

Erwin Wong — Thu, 17 Nov 2011 08:04:54 +0000

Singapore start Day 7 fourth on the medal tally with 30 gold, 33 silver and 49 bronze medals. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Day 6: Singapore in action

Les Tan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 05:16:41 +0000

Singapore start Day 6 fourth on the medal tally with 25 gold, 24 silver and 40 bronze medals. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Swimming: Joseph Schooling destroys field and qualifies for Olympics

Les Tan — Wed, 16 Nov 2011 01:37:59 +0000

Joseph Schooling, won the men’s 200m butterfly gold medal in overwhelming fashion. The 16-year-old led from start to finish and clocked a time of 1:56.67 to win by over three seconds. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Swimming: Singapore in action

Les Tan — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 08:53:23 +0000

Singapore swimmers have won 15 gold, eight silver and twelve bronze medals after five days of competition at the 26th South-east Asian (SEA) Games. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Day 5: Singapore in action

Erwin Wong — Tue, 15 Nov 2011 01:26:10 +0000

Singapore begins the fifth day of the 26th South-east Asian Games in fourth place on the medal tally with 19 gold, 17 silver and 31 bronze medals. … [visit site to read more]

SEA Games Day 4: Singapore in action

Erwin Wong — Sun, 13 Nov 2011 17:23:58 +0000

Singapore starts the fourth day of the 26th South-east Asian Games in fourth place on the medal tally with 12 gold, 12 silver and 17 bronze medals. … [visit site to read more]

Singapore’s Tao Li and Pang Sheng Jun make podium at Swimming World Cup

Les Tan — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 09:22:22 +0000

Singapore’s Tao Li and Pang Sheng Jun made the podium to fly the country’s flag at the FINA/Arena Swimming World Cup. Tao Li won a bronze in the 100m butterfly and followed up with a silver in the same discipline over 50m, while Sheng Jun captured bronze in the 1500m freestyle. … [visit site to read more]