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| IOC code | SGP |
| NOC | Singapore National Olympic Council |
| Website | www |
| Medals Ranked 102nd |
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 Malaysia (1964) | |
Singapore has sentathletes to the celebration of theOlympic Games since 1948, when it was established as a separate Britishcrown colony from theStraits Settlements just over three months before the commencement of the1948 Summer Olympics.[a]It continued to send a team to the Games until1964 when the Singaporean delegation competed withMalaysia, which sent a combined team.
Upon Singapore'sfull independence from Malaysia in 1965, the country continued to participate in all subsequent editions of the Summer Olympics except in1980 when the country participated in a largeUnited States–ledboycott against theSoviet invasion of Afghanistan.Singapore was the host of the inauguralSummer Youth Olympic Games in2010.
Singapore made theirWinter Olympics debut at the2018 Winter Olympics, with speed skater,Cheyenne Goh, competing in theshort track speed skating event.[2][3][4] TheSingapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) is theNational Olympic Committee for Singapore.
Under the Major Games Award Programme by the Singapore National Olympics Council,[5] individual gold, silver and bronze medalists are awarded S$1 million, S$500,000 and S$250,000 respectively.[6] Team Event and Team Sport medalists are awarded different amounts for each medal type.[7]
The country has won sixOlympic medals, the first was at the1960 Summer Olympics, the second at the2008 Summer Olympics[8] and the third and fourth at the2012 Summer Olympics.[9] At the2016 Summer Olympics Singapore won their first ever gold medal and the fifth overall.[10] At the2024 Summer Olympics, Singapore won their third bronze medal, bringing the total number of Olympic medals won to six.
Singapore's first Olympic medal was won byTan Howe Liang, who won silver in lightweight weightlifting in1960 Summer Olympics. The first and to date only Olympic gold medal was won byJoseph Schooling in themen's 100 metre butterfly at the2016 Summer Olympics.[11] Intable tennis,Jing Junhong,Li Jiawei andYu Mengyu came close to winning medals by finishing in fourth place for the women's singles events at the2000 Sydney Olympics,2004 Athens Olympics and2020 Tokyo Olympics respectively.
During the2008 Beijing Olympics, Singapore sent its largest contingent at that time, since it first participated, and was considered the best prepared to win a medal.[12] Li Jiawei, together withFeng Tianwei andWang Yuegu, beat theSouth Korea Women's Table Tennis team, composed ofDang Ye-Seo,Kim Kyung-Ah andPark Mi-Young 3–2 in the semi-finals, assuring Singapore of at least a silver medal and ending Singapore's 48-year Olympic medal drought. Singapore facedhost China in the gold medal final and lost in straight sets but won the silver medal.[13]
In the2012 London Olympics, Feng beatKasumi Ishikawa fromJapan 4–0 in the table tennis women's singles bronze medal match, winning Singapore's first individual Olympic medal in 52 years since Tan won the silver medal at the1960 Rome Games.[14] In the table tennis women's team bronze medal match, Li, together with Feng and Wang, beat the South Korea team composing Dang Ye-Seo, Kim Kyung-Ah and Seok Ha-Jung 3–0, winning another bronze medal.[15] The two bronze medals won at the 2012 London Summer Olympics marked the first time that Singapore won more than one medal in an Olympiad.[16][17]
In the2016 Rio Olympics, Olympic swimmerJoseph Schooling won a gold medal in the Men's 100 metre butterfly in an Olympics record of 50.39 seconds, becoming the first gold Olympic medallist of Singapore. This was also the first gold medal by a Southeast Asian male swimmer and the first Olympic gold that Singapore achieved.[18][19][20][21] During the2020 Summer Olympics held inTokyo, Japan, Singapore sent 23 athletes to the Games but did not manage to win any medals.[22]
In the2024 Summer Olympics inParis, kitefoilerMaximilian Maeder won a bronze medal in the Men’s Kite category at the age of only 17, coming behind second placeToni Vodišek fromSlovenia and first placeValentin Bontus fromAustria. This makesMaximilian Maeder the youngest individual to win a medal in theOlympics fromSingapore.
Athletes from Singapore have won a total of 6 medals at the Olympics including 1 gold.
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