Youth Olympic Handball news flash: Singapore beat Cook Islands 32-18 in 5th/6th playoff second leg
The Singapore boys’ handball team beat Cook Islands 32-18 in the second leg of the fifth and sixth place playoff.
The Singapore boys’ handball team beat Cook Islands 32-18 in the second leg of the fifth and sixth place playoff.
After two tough opening matches against Brazil and Egypt where they were beaten by massive scorelines, the Singapore boys’ handball team finally welcomed their first victory by beating Cook Islands 27-20 in the first leg of the fifth and sixth place playoff.
The Singapore men's handball team beat Cook Islands 27-20 in the first leg of the 5th/6th place playoff.
A ruthlessly-efficient Isabelle Li put herself in contention for Singapore’s first gold medal at the Youth Olympic Games when she knocked out Thailand’s Suthasini Sawettabut in four straight sets (11-9, 11-6, 11-6, 11-9), in the women's singles semi-finals of the table-tennis competition.
Singapore took on Haiti in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG) football semi-final but it was not the easy ticket to the final as some may have thought as the Cubs could not rise to the occasion and succumbed to a 2-0 defeat.
The Youth Olympic Games (YOG) cycling competition came to an end this morning with the Junior Women's Time Trial and Junior Men's Road Race finals. The Singapore team comprising Alvin Phoon, Daniel Koh, Travis Woodford and Nur Nasthasia finished 29th out of 32 countries.
Daniel Koh and Travis Woodford finished 71st and 73rd respectively in the Junior Men's Road Final with the same timing while Alvin Phoon did not finish the race.
Singapore's female cycling representative Nur Nasthasia Abdul Nazzeer finished 25th in a field of 31 in the Junior Women's Time Trial Final this morning. She achieved a timing of 3:51.74 over 2.3km.