Singapore at the 2016 Summer Olympics

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Singapore at the
2016 Summer Olympics
Flag of Singapore.svg
IOC code SIN
NOC Singapore National Olympic Council
Website www.singaporeolympics.com
in Rio de Janeiro
Competitors25 in 7 sports
Flag bearers Derek Wong Zi Liang (opening) [1]
Griselda Khng (closing)
Medals
Ranked 54th
Gold
1
Silver
0
Bronze
0
Total
1
Summer Olympics appearances (overview)

Singapore competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, from 5 to 21 August 2016. This was the nation's sixteenth appearance at the Summer Olympics, except for two different editions. Singapore was part of the Malaysian team at the 1964 Summer Olympics in Tokyo, but did not attend at the 1980 Summer Olympics in Moscow, because of its support for the United States boycott.

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The Singapore National Olympic Council sent a team of 25 athletes, 9 men and 16 women, to compete in seven different sports at the Games, matching the nation's full roster size with Beijing. [2] For the fourth consecutive time in its Summer Olympic history, the Singaporean roster also featured more female athletes than males. Sailing had the largest team by sport with a total of ten competitors, roughly forty percent of the nation's full roster size; there was only a single competitor in rowing, the country's Olympic debut in Rio de Janeiro.

The Singaporean roster featured nine returning Olympians, with table tennis players Gao Ning and Feng Tianwei, who held a tally of three medals (one silver and two bronze) throughout her Olympic career, headed to their third straight Games. Seven Singaporean athletes, on the other hand, returned for their second appearance in Rio de Janeiro, including rifle shooter Jasmine Ser Xiang Wei, world-ranked butterfly swimmer Joseph Schooling, along with siblings Quah Zheng Wen and Quah Ting Wen, sailors Colin Cheng and Elizabeth Yue Ling Yin, and badminton player Derek Wong Zi Liang, who was selected to lead the delegation as the nation's flag bearer in the opening ceremony, becoming the first male to do so since 2004. [1]

Singapore left Rio de Janeiro with its first ever gold medal in Olympic history. It was awarded to Schooling, who established a new Olympic record to claim the men's 100 m butterfly title. [3] [4]

Swimmer Joseph Schooling won Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal. Joseph Schooling Kazan 2015.jpg
Swimmer Joseph Schooling won Singapore's first ever Olympic gold medal.

Medalists

The following Singaporean competitors won medals at the Games. In the by discipline sections below, medalists' names are bolded. [5]

MedalNameSportEventDate
Gold medal icon.svg Gold Joseph Schooling Swimming Men's 100 m butterfly 12 August

Athletics

Singaporean athletes have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following athletics events (up to a maximum of 3 athletes in each event): [6] [7]

Key
Track & road events
AthleteEventHeatQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Timothee Yap Men's 100 m 10.842 Q10.799Did not advance
Neo Jie Shi Women's marathon —3:15:18131

Badminton

Singapore has qualified two badminton players for each of the following events into the Olympic tournament. London 2012 Olympian Derek Wong Zi Liang and Liang Xiaoyu were selected among the top 34 individual shuttlers each in the men's and women's singles based on the BWF World Rankings as of 5 May 2016. [8]

AthleteEventGroup StageEliminationQuarterfinalSemifinalFinal / BM
Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		RankOpposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Opposition
Score		Rank
Derek Wong Zi Liang Men's singles Flag of Malaysia.svg  Lee C W  (MAS)
L (18–21, 8–21)		Flag of Suriname.svg  Opti  (SUR)
W (21–5, 21–6)		2Did not advance
Liang Xiaoyu Women's singles Flag of South Korea.svg  Sung J-h  (KOR)
L (17–21, 11–21)		Flag of France.svg  Lansac  (FRA)
W (21–7, 21–15)		2Did not advance

Rowing

Singapore has qualified one boat in the women's single sculls for the Olympics at the 2016 Asia & Oceania Continental Qualification Regatta in Chungju, South Korea, signifying the nation's Olympic sporting debut. [9]

AthleteEventHeatsRepechageQuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Saiyidah Aisyah Women's single sculls 8:44.713 QFBye7.56.006 SC/D8:22.456 FD7:55.7323

Qualification Legend: FA=Final A (medal); FB=Final B (non-medal); FC=Final C (non-medal); FD=Final D (non-medal); FE=Final E (non-medal); FF=Final F (non-medal); SA/B=Semifinals A/B; SC/D=Semifinals C/D; SE/F=Semifinals E/F; QF=Quarterfinals; R=Repechage

Sailing

Singaporean sailors have qualified one boat in each of the following classes through the 2014 ISAF Sailing World Championships, the individual fleet Worlds, and Asian qualifying regattas. [10] [11]

Following the completion of the Princess Sofia Trophy, the Singapore Sailing Federation had announced their selection for the men's RS:X, Laser Radial, 49erFX, and Nacra 17 to represent the country at the Rio regatta. The women's 470 crew was added to the squad based on the sailors' results at the World and European Championships. [12] Laser sailor and London 2012 Olympian Colin Cheng Xin Ru rounded out the internal selection for the Singaporeans at the World Championships in Riviera Nayarita, Mexico. [13]

2015 Southeast Asian Games gold medalist Audrey Yong was the last Singaporean sailor chosen to the Olympic team, as the nation received a spare Olympic berth freed up by Canada in the women's RS:X by the International Sailing Federation. [14]

Men
AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank
123456789101112M*
Leonard Ong RS:X 33333533DNF2736DNF20DNF34DNFEL36235
Colin Cheng Xin Ru Laser 520131821UFD2722259—EL16020
Women
AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank
123456789101112M*
Audrey Yong RS:X 252524252318DNF2422DNCDNCDNCEL26625
Elizabeth Yue Ling Yin Laser Radial 1929261123252017UFD23—EL19326
Jovina Choo
Amanda Ng 		470 17172021182119171818—EL16620
Griselda Khng
Sara Tan 		49erFX 121917111411820157813EL13515
Mixed
AthleteEventRaceNet pointsFinal rank
123456789101112M*
Justin Liu
Denise Lim 		Nacra 17 21414181817141418172111EL15719

M = Medal race; EL = Eliminated – did not advance into the medal race

Shooting

Singaporean shooters have achieved quota places for the following events by virtue of their best finishes at the 2014 and 2015 ISSF World Championships, the 2015 ISSF World Cup series, and Asian Championships, as long as they obtained a minimum qualifying score (MQS) by March 31, 2016. [15] For the first time in the nation's Olympic history, Singapore will enter two sport shooters at the Games on a qualifying merit. [16]

AthleteEventQualificationSemifinalFinal
PointsRankPointsRankPointsRank
Jasmine Ser Xiang Wei Women's 10 m air rifle 413.525—Did not advance
Women's 50 m rifle 3 positions 56834—Did not advance
Teo Shun Xie Women's 10 m air pistol 37537—Did not advance
Women's 25 m pistol 57129Did not advance

Qualification Legend: Q = Qualify for the next round; q = Qualify for the bronze medal (shotgun)

Swimming

Singaporean swimmers have so far achieved qualifying standards in the following events (up to a maximum of 2 swimmers in each event at the Olympic Qualifying Time (OQT), and potentially 1 at the Olympic Selection Time (OST)): [17] [18]

2015 Worlds bronze medalist Joseph Schooling, and siblings Quah Ting Wen and Quah Zheng Wen were the only swimmers to be named to the Singaporean roster for the Games, the smallest in more than three decades. [19]

AthleteEventHeatSemifinalFinal
TimeRankTimeRankTimeRank
Quah Zheng Wen Men's 100 m backstroke 54.3822Did not advance
Men's 100 m butterfly 52.0816 Q52.2615Did not advance
Men's 200 m butterfly 1:56.0110 Q1:56.1110Did not advance
Joseph Schooling Men's 100 m freestyle 48.276 Q48.7016Did not advance
Men's 100 m butterfly 51.411 Q50.83 AS 1 Q50.39 OR Gold medal icon.svg
Quah Ting Wen Women's 100 m butterfly 1:00.8834Did not advance

Table tennis

Singapore has fielded a team of five athletes into the table tennis competition at the Games. London 2012 bronze medalist Feng Tianwei and 2015 Commonwealth champion Chen Feng secured the Olympic spot each in the men's and women's singles as the highest-ranked player coming from the Southeast Asia zone at the Asian Qualification Tournament in Hong Kong. [20] Meanwhile, Gao Ning and Yu Mengyu were automatically selected among the top 22 eligible players each in their respective singles events based on the ITTF Olympic Rankings. [21]

AthleteEventPreliminaryRound 1Round 2Round 3Round of 16QuarterfinalsSemifinalsFinal / BM
Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Opposition
Result		Rank
Chen Feng Men's singles Flag of Finland.svg  Oláh  (FIN)
L 1–4		Did not advance
Gao Ning ByeFlag of the United Kingdom.svg  Drinkhall  (GBR)
L 3–4		Did not advance
Feng Tianwei Women's singles ByeFlag of Luxembourg.svg  Ni Xl  (LUX)
W 4–2		Flag of Austria.svg  Liu J  (AUT)
W 4–1		Flag of Japan.svg  Fukuhara  (JPN)
L 0–4		Did not advance
Yu Mengyu ByeFlag of Australia.svg  Lay J F  (AUS)
W 4–0		Flag of South Korea.svg  Jeon J-h  (KOR)
W 4–1		Flag of North Korea.svg  Kim S-i  (PRK)
L 2–4		Did not advance
Feng Tianwei
Yu Mengyu
Zhou Yihan 		Women's team —Flag of Egypt.svg  Egypt  (EGY)
W 3–0		Flag of South Korea.svg  South Korea  (KOR)
W 3–2		Flag of the People's Republic of China.svg  China  (CHN)
L 0–3		Flag of Japan.svg  Japan  (JPN)
L 1–3		4

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