WORLD RECORD Weightlifting
Youngest Gold Medalist In An International Tournament
Teo Yong Joo, a protege of Tan Howe Liang, became the youngest participating weightlifter at age 21 at the 1983 SEA Games, where he won a gold. At the 1986 Commonwealth Games, he won a bronze.
First Weightlifter At Olympics
Chay Weng Yew was placed sixth at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics in the featherweight division. Chay was the fi rst to lift 272 kg at a Mr Singapore competition at the New World Stadium. He held the national title from 1948 to 1953 and was Champion of Champions from 1950 to 1953.
Best Bantamweight Weightlifter
Lon bin Mohamed Noor was Singapore’s best bantamweight weightlifter. He lifted 283.5 kg in training and fi nished eighth at the 1952 Helsinki Olympics.
Wushu First Olympic Medallist Most Memorable Turnaround
Weightlifter Chua Koon Siong fainted for seven minutes after hurting his brows and lips during his fi rst lift at the 1981 Commonwealth Weightlifting Championship. He returned to complete the second and third lifts with blood oozing from his brow and lips, and won the gold medal with a fi nal lift of 137.5 kg.
Commonwealth Games First Golds At The
In the 1958 Cardiff Commonwealth Games, Tan Howe Liang took the gold in the lightweight category by lifting 358 kg. Tan also established a world record in the clean-and-jerk. That same year, Tan also won a gold at the 3rd Asian Games in Tokyo. In Cardiff , Tan Ser Cher also took the gold in the featherweight event with a lift of 310 kg.
Tan Howe Liang was the fi rst Olympic medallist from Singapore when he won the lightweight silver medal on 9 Sep 1960 at the Palazetto Dello Sport Hall in Rome. 27-year-old Tan lifted a total of 380 kg to win that medal.
Award First To Receive IWF Gold
Tan Howe Liang was the fi rst weightlifter in the world to be awarded the International Weightlifting Federation (national honour) Gold Award in 1984. He was also awarded the IOC Pin in 1989 for his performance at the 1960 Rome Olympics.
First Lightweight To Lift Over 135 Kg
Singaporean Wong Kay Poh was the fi rst light- weight weightlifter in Malaya to clean-and- jerk over 135 kg at the Happy World Stadium in Mar 1954. He represented Singapore in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics in the middle- weight category and was placed ninth.
First World-Level Medal
The fi rst international medal won by a Singa- porean was when weightlifter Thong Saw Park won a silver medal in the lightweight category at the British Empire Games in 1950. He was the highest-ranked Singaporean weightlifter then and was ranked tenth in the world in the lightweight category prior to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, in which he participated. Thong later went on to gain his doctorate from Queen’s University at Belfast and was Head of the Physics Department at the University of Malaya.
Most Gold Medals At SEA Games
Wushu exponent Goh Qiu Bin was wushu’s fi rst Sportsman of the Year in 2006. Goh has won three golds at consecutive SEA Games and a bronze medal at the Doha Asian Games.
First TV Artiste With SEA Games Golds
Vincent Ng Cheng Hye was a gold medallist in the 3rd World Wushu Championship 1995. He also clinched the gold at the 1993 and 1997 SEA Games. In 1997, he took part in MediaCorp’s Star Search and became an actor. He was voted one of the Top Ten Most Popular Male Artistes in 2000 and 2001.
First Medallist At Asian Games
May Tan Mui Buay won the gold medal in the taijiquan category in the 17th SEA Games in 1993. She won the bronze medal in the Hiroshima Asian Games of 1994. Prior to that, she was fi rst in the National Wushu Championship in 1989 and 1991 for taiji sword and in 1991 for taijiquan.
First Gold Medallist At SEA Games
See Ah Hoon became the fi rst Singapor- ean to win a gold medal in wushu at the 1991 SEA Games held in Manila. She won the broadsword event.
Others First Sports Festival
In Dec 1964, Singapore’s fi rst organised sports tournament since independence, the Pesta Sukan (Sports Festival) was held. It was organised by the Ministry of Culture and was aimed at providing an opportunity for sports- men and women to get together in friendly competitions.
Largest Haul Of SEA Games Medals
Singapore’s best performance was when it hosted the SEA Games in 1993. Singapore won a total of 164 medals: 50 golds, 40 silvers and 74 bronzes.
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