Singapore para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu eyes more gold medals at sixth Paralympics
Yip Pin Xiu is aiming for her eighth and ninth Paralympic gold medals at the 2028 Los Angeles Games in the 50m and 100m backstroke S2 events.
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Singapore doubles player Loh Kean Hean retires; aims to build ‘badminton community’
The 30-year-old Singaporean, who won six bronzes at the SEA Games and a bronze at the Commonwealth Games, will shift his focus towards the running of the Elever Badminton academy,…
Police report lodged over fin swimmers’ falsified results for Singapore’s 2023 SEA Games selection
The committee of inquiry concluded its investigations in February. Aside from the falsified results, the COI also “identified areas of poor governance and a failure within…
Singapore swimmer Yip Pin Xiu wins S2 100m backstroke gold at Paralympics
The 32-year-old narrowly edged Mexico's Haidee Aceves, clocking 2min 21.73sec to finish just 0.06sec ahead of the Mexican and retain her title for her sixth Paralympic gold.
Siddharth Jagadeesh becomes Singapore’s sixth and youngest chess grandmaster at 17
Siddharth needed only one point from his two remaining games at the UAE event, before beating world No. 34 Russian grandmaster Andrey Esipenko in Round 8 on May 21.
Singapore sprint queen Shanti Pereira breaks 400m national record
The 400m race in the James G. Pressly Stadium at the University of Florida concluded Pereira’s two-month training stint in the Sunshine State.
E-sports craze in Philippines as fans welcome Mobile Legends M5 World Championship
The Filipinos’ love for Mobile Legends: Bang Bang is evident in Manila, where anyone from Grab drivers to smartly dressed businessmen can be spotted engrossed on their mobile…
Singapore swimmer Letitia Sim wins silver at Japan Open, qualifies for Paris Olympics
National Training Centre assistant coach Gustavo Schirru had told her to “go out there and have fun”, which helped ease the pressure Letitia put on herself to meet the…
Singapore’s Abigail Kong, 22, to lead all-female team at Valorant Game Changers Championship
Kong plays a sentinel role in the game, which requires her to guard the team’s site during a match. Her specialisation is the agent Killjoy, which uses various robots and…
Singapore-based team Paper Rex win US$400,000 after finishing second at Valorant Champions
Paper Rex have come a long way since their humble beginnings, having played in various local tournaments in Singapore.