Two local rugby clubs -- Singapore Cricket Club and Singapore Barbarians -- came up against respected club teams Horowhenua-Kapiti and Ponsonby, both of New Zealand, as well as Malaysia's Cobras and Negeri Sembilan Wanderers in the Singapore Cricket Club (SCC) Rugby 7s tournament.
Despite changing venues for a game that was supposed to be held at the Singapore Management University (SMU), the National University of Singapore (NUS) women’s volleyball team managed to defeat Nanyang Technological University (NTU) 25-16, 25-20, 25-21 in the Singapore University Games (SUniG) last week.
In a surprising turn of fortunes, the National University of Singapore (NUS) women’s floorball team managed to exact revenge over traditional nemeses, Nanyang Technological University (NTU), in the SIM Inter-Uni Floorball Championship by beating them 3-0.
Singapore rider Caroline Chew rode Gatineau to Team Asia's fourth placing in the jumping team competition and joint-17th in the jumping individual competition at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
Singapore boxer Muhammad Hanurdeen Hamid loses the bronze medal bout 0-7 against Zohidjon Hoorboyev of Uzbekistan. He bows out of the Games having lost both of his fights.
Caroline Chew, together with her Gelding Thoroughbred, Gatineau, finished a respectable joint-17th after knocking down only two poles of Obstacle 4. Clearing the rest of the eleven obstacles without mistakes, she finished the near-perfect round with a time of 75.12 seconds, scoring 4 jump penalties and 12 total penalties.
Singapore's Muhammed Hanurdeen Bin Hamid did not progress to the final of the boxing men's 48kg light-flyweight bout despite giving an all-out attacking performance in the Youth Olympic Games. International Boxing Association (AIBA) World Youth Champion Salman Alizada proved to be more experienced, winning the bout 9-1 against the Singaporean.
Despite starting the match positively with a tremendous display of teamwork, Singapore could not keep up their positive momentum early on in the first set as they lost in straight sets against Japan in Match 3 of Preliminary Pool A of Women’s volleyball. Japan were tactically more aware during the game as they concentrated their offensive on Singapore’s fast tiring defense towards the end, handing the hosts a concise 9-25, 16-25, 9-25 defeat.