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| Native name | Jeralyn Tan Yee Ting | ||||||||||||||
| Born | 1 February 1989 | ||||||||||||||
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| Country | Singapore | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Boccia | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Jeralyn Tan Yee Ting (born 1 February 1989) is a Singaporean boccia player. [1] She competed at the 2024 Summer Paralympics, reaching the finals of the women's individual BC1 event. [2] [3]
Tan studied at the Cerebral Palsy Alliance Singapore (CPAS) School when she was eight and picked up boccia as a co-curricular activity in 2002. [4] In 2003, she participated in the National Disability Games. [4]
Tan initially competed in the BC2 category, competing independently. [4] In 2008, Tan competed in the ASEAN Para Games in Thailand and won the bronze medal in the individual BC2 category. [4]
Despite the small success, Tan struggled in the category and kept losing in competition. [4] In 2015, she was reclassified as BC1, where the athlete compete with an assistant. [4] In 2016, Yurnita Omar, who was originally the ramp assistant for former Paralympian Toh Sze Ning, who competed in the BC3 category, [5] was transferred to the BC1 category and started working with Tan. [5]
In 2020, Tan started representing Singapore. [5] In 2021, Tan won the World Boccia Asia-Oceania Regional Championship. [5] Tan won another two World Boccia Cup titles in 2023. [5]
In 2024, Tan successfully defended her World Boccia Cup title in Montreal, Canada. [5] However, Tan was eliminated in the quarter-finals at the World Boccia Cup in Portugal in July. [5]
At the 2024 Summer Paralympics, Tan won the silver medal at the individual BC1 event, ranking second in the world and first in Asia. [6] For her medal, Tan was awards S$ 300,000 at the Singapore National Paralympic Council’s Athletes Achievement Awards on 15 October. [7]
As of November 2024, Tan was ranked first in the women’s BC1 category. [7]
