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Team Singapore report card

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TOTAL 53 46 68 167PHOTOS: SINGAPORE NATIONAL OLYMPIC COUNCIL,

LIANHE ZAOBAO, SPORT SINGAPORE, REUTERSSTRAITS TIMES GRAPHICS

SEA GAMES 2019

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Archery

Athletics

Badminton

Baseball

Basketball

Bowling

Boxing

Canoe/kayaking

Chess

Cue sports

Cycling

Dancesport

Diving

E-sports

Fencing

Floorball

Football

Golf

Gymnastics

Beach handball

Ice hockey

Ice skating

Indoor hockey

Judo

Jiu-jitsu

Kurash

Lawn bowling

Modern pentathlon

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Muay thai

Netball

Open-water swimming

Rugby 7s

Sailing/windsurfing

Sambo

Sepak takraw

Shooting

Silat

Skate-boarding

Softball

Squash

Surfing

Swimming

Table tennis

Taekwondo

Tennis

Traditional boat race

Triathlon/duathlon

Underwater hockey

Volleyball

Wakeboard/waterski

Water polo

Wrestling

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Only compound events were contested. Contessa Loh came closest to the podium, making it to the bronze-medal match.

Poor performance save for three bronzes, down from 2-2-4 in 2017, amid reports of in�ghting in the relay teams.

Loh Kean Yew’s brave run to the men’s singles �nal was the highlight but, in the women’s camp, Yeo Jia Min admitted the need to improve physically and mentally.

This was Singapore’s Games debut so no surprise as they �nished fourth.

The damage came in the group defeat by a Vietnam side boosted by foreign-born players. The Singapore men recovered to beat Malaysia for �fth place.

The women made a statement by reclaiming the team title and New Hui Fen dominated with the singles and Masters golds. The men gave a creditable performance.

While they had three bronzes in 2017, they have only one this time.

All �ve were debutants racing in seawater conditions for the �rst time. Only Lim Yuan Yin made two �nals and narrowly missed out on a medal.

One athlete, one event, one gold. Against some of the region’s top, full-time players, Gong Qianyun was superb under pressure.

As the gold count dropped from three to one, while the medals doubled to eight, sole gold medallist Peter Gilchrist remains the standard-bearer.

With no track events, where Singapore had a 1-1-1 haul in 2017, one silver and two bronzes in road cycling is commendable.

No golds. But one silver and four bronzes across all three styles was a major breakthrough from the 2005 and 2007 drought.

With a reduced roster, the divers put in a commendable performance with medals in three of the four events.

No golds. But the athletes delivered the country’s �rst Games medals in the sport – one silver and one bronze.

Singapore’s best Games showing sent them atop the fencing tally.

Both teams had been heavy favourites. The women delivered, the men did not.

A real let-down on and off the pitch. The Young Lions failed to score in four games and, to make matters worse, nine of their 20 players broke curfew during the tournament.

Kudos for a �rst men’s individual gold in 30 years from James Leow, while the new-look men’s team fought bravely against Thailand but failed to retain their title.

With just one bronze this time, it is a far cry from their haul of two silvers and three bronzes in 2017.

In tough competition, they lost all their games and �nished last.

They improved on their medal-less �nish in 2017 to reach the �nal, where they lost to a formidable Thai team.

New ground was broken as Singapore won its �rst short-track speed skating golds – three. Figure skating added one more for the Republic to top the joint tally with four of the eight titles.

Joint-bronzes for both the men and women put them one step up from their 2017 performance of one bronze.

A silver and two bronzes make it an improvement from the 2017 result of one bronze.

Impressive showing in a campaign reaping two golds, one silver and four bronzes, with seven of the nine �ghters winning medals.

Fifty per cent return for the two-man team, as a gritty battle through pain earned Joel Tseng a silver.

The women’s triples team ended the sport’s two-decade wait for gold.

Delivered on its two-bronze target despite events being compressed into fewer days because of Typhoon Kammuri.

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Another sport with only two athletes and one, Lena Tan, bagged a bronze.

With only a third of the team having Games experience, it was always a tall order to dethrone Malaysia in the �nal.

This is the �rst time the athletes have not won a medal in the past three editions that the sport has featured in.

After two silvers in 2017, this time the men lost the bronze play-off to Thailand, while the women �nished �fth out of six teams and won only once in the round robin.

Ryan Lo retained his Laser Standard title. But to maintain the four-gold tally from 2017 was always going to be tough, given that most of the sailing classes were different.

This was a competition to remember – walking away with one gold, two silvers and three bronzes in the sport’s Games debut.

They were without a medal for a second consecutive Games.

With Olympic hopefuls and big guns like Jasmine Ser, Martina Veloso and Tessa Neo absent, the shooters �red golden blanks for the �rst time since 1991.

To be able to match 2017’s two-gold haul despite the cut in events from 20 to nine is admirable. Singapore won their �rst team gold in an artistic event.

There were no medals, although Nur Farah Atika Abdullah came close in �nishing fourth in the women’s street category.

The men overcame the odds to beat regional powerhouses Philippines twice en route to a historic gold. The women were fourth out of �ve teams.

With the doubles events axed, it was always going to be tough to match the three golds from 2017. Still, they did well to clinch two silvers and three bronzes.

No medals but it was always going to be hard for an inexperienced team against giants Philippines and Indonesia.

A great performance with a record away gold haul of 23 that matched the best tally from Singapore 2015. The young guns did well as the squad won 60.5 per cent of the 38 titles.

The doubles misadventures were mitigated by all-Singapore �nals in the singles events, with 17-year-old Koen Pang’s triumph a pleasant surprise.

Ng Ming Wei’s silver in the men’s Under-58kg was the lone medal, an upgrade on a bronze from 2017.

The quarter-�nals were the furthest they went so it is a dip from the single bronze in 2017.

While their target was two podium �nishes, they knew it would be tough with competition from Thailand, Myanmar and Indonesia.

It was the two young mixed-relay teams that shone with two silvers, with no medals in the individual events.

The Philippines have a rich history in the sport so, for Singapore to pocket all four golds, is a breathtaking achievement.

For the men’s indoor team, there was no improvement from 2015 – three defeats in three. In the beach version, it went slightly better – the men made it to the bronze match while the women were last.

Not as successful as previous campaigns but credit to 13-year-old Nur Alysha Rizwan who snagged their sole bronze.

Not only did the men relinquish their 52-year grip on the gold, but they were also only good enough for the bronze in one of the biggest shocks. The women were beaten to gold – by Thailand.

An improved performance with three joint-bronzes.

Their tally of one gold and one bronze pales in comparison to their haul in the past few Games.

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Team Singapore report cardDARREN CHUA, 19, swimming

QUAH JING WEN, 18, swimming

QUAH TING WEN, 27, swimming

NEW HUI FEN, 27, bowling

PETER GILCHRIST, 51, cue sports

6th straight gold

SENI REGU SILAT TRIOFirst artistic team gold

ALOYSIUS ONG, 18, softball

First gold in the sport

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