Singapore won a gold, silver and bronze medal each today at the Asian Youth Games swimming competition, with the highlight of the night coming when Quah Ting Wen and Amanda Lim stormed home to a one-two finish in the girls 50m freestyle.
After taking top spot in the 50m freestyle semi-finals, Amanda Lim stole the limelight once again as she was instrumental in carrying Singapore's 4x100m medley relay team to a bronze finish in a time of 4:13.34 minutes.
The Koreans have been making a huge splash at the Asian Youth Games (AYG) swimming competition but Singapore's Quah Ting Wen has pipped them for gold in the 200m freestyle final. Lionel Khoo, Rainer Ng and Roanne Ho also added to the medal count with bronze finishes.
The Singaporean team of New Huifen and Darshini Krishna bagged the Republic's second gold medal in the Asian Youth Games' (AYG) girls doubles bowling event.
Singapore bowler New Huifen won the host's first gold medal at the inaugural Asian Youth Games (AYG) when she knocked off 1359 pins over 6 games to claim top spot in the girls' singles event.
Melissa Wu leapt a distance of 4.94m for a bronze medal in the long jump while Sean Lim followed up soon after with a bronze medal of his own with a 4.30m effort in the boys' pole vault.
The first ever Asian Youth Games (AYG) was officially declared open by Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong at the opening ceremony held at the Singapore Indoor Stadium.
Iranian team captain Bahman Jahantigh scored a brilliant solo goal to inspire his side to a hard-fought 2-1 victory over Singapore in the opening Group A match of the Asian Youth Games football competition.