Fresh from their victory at the World Team Table Tennis Championships in Moscow, Singapore’s female paddlers took centre-stage tonight at the Raffles City Convention Centre when the local sports fraternity paid tribute to Team Singapore’s top athletes for their outstanding performances in 2009 at the nation’s most prestigious sports recognition event, the Singapore Sports Awards 2010.
The SNOC Games Selection Committee chaired by Minister Teo Chee Hean, Deputy Prime Minister, Minister for Defence and President SNOC met today to select Team Singapore athletes and teams for the Singapore 2010 Youth Olympic Games.
Lionel Khoo of Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) broke the B Division 100m Breaststroke record as ACS(I) retained both the B and C Division titles at the 51st National Inter-School Swimming Championships.
Having already smashed the A division 200m backstroke meet record earlier in the day, Rainer Ng from Raffles Instituition (JC) returned in the evening to spark his team to a new meet record in the 4x50m A division boys medley relay of 1 min 46.31 seconds.
Team Singapore's swimmers capped off an excellent performance at the pool with another two more golds on the final day of the swimming programme, part of a four-gold haul on the sixth day of the 25th South East Asian (SEA) Games.
The golds kept coming for Team Singapore on the fifth day of the 25th South East Asian (SEA) Games as they garnered six more to boost their impressive medal tally to 24 golds, 12 silvers and 24 bronzes.
Team Singapore's swimmers continued to stamp their dominance as the region's top conquerors of the pool when they won four of seven events on day four of the 25th South East Asian (SEA) Games, to reach double figures in swimming golds.
Gold medals from billiards, shooting and swimming help boost Team Singapore's medal tally to 14 golds, 6 silvers and 12 bronzes.