Top Sporting Stars Honoured At The Singapore Sports Awards 2012

29 MAY 2012

Top Sporting Stars Honoured At The Singapore Sports Awards 2012

Fu Mingtian and Joseph Schooling Earned Top Spots at the Event

Singapore, 29 May 2012 - The Sporting Singapore fraternity gathered tonight at the Singapore Sports Awards (SSA) 2012 to honour the nation’s top sporting talents for their notable achievements in the past year. The event, graced by President Tony Tan Keng Yam and Mrs Mary Tan, saw athletes and officials being awarded with Singapore’s most prestigious recognition for sporting achievements.

2. Speaking at Awards ceremony at the Swissotel The Stamford, Deputy Prime Minister Teo Chee Hean, Coordinating Minister for National Security and Minister for Home Affairs said, “We are here today to pay tribute to our top sporting talents, congratulate them on a job well done and spur them on to do even better in their future sporting pursuits. 2011 has indeed been another momentous year for Team Singapore.”

3. DPM Teo who is also the President of the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) added, “The Singapore Sports Awards Selection Committee found ourselves having to make a difficult decision in choosing the finalists, and subsequently a winner, for each award category. But this is indeed a happy problem as it only means that Singapore has more and more talented athletes that we can be proud of.”

4. Unlike previous years, where the winners of the main awards were announced prior to the Awards night, this year’s SSA saw a change in format. In April 2012, the SSA Selection Committee selected the finalists for the main awards and a secret ballot was then carried out to choose the most deserving winners. The winners were only revealed at the Awards ceremony. This new format will continue for future editions of the SSA.

Winners Unveiled

5. Guests at the SSA 2012 waited with bated breath for winners of the main awards to be announced by Chairman of the SSA 2012 Organising Committee, Mr Low Teo Ping who is also the Vice-President of the SNOC.

The winners are:

Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Team of the Year (Event): National Optimist Sailing Team at the World Team Racing Championship
Team of the Year (Event): National Wushu Women’s Duilian Team
Coach of the Year: William Woo Nam Fatt
Sportsgirl of the Year: Amanda Lim Xiang Qi
Sportsboy of the Year: Quah Zheng Wen
Sportwoman of the Year: Fu Mingtian
Sportsman of the Year: Joseph Isaac Schooling

6. The loudest cheers from the room were heard when the winners of Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year were announced. The complete list of winners can be found in Annex A.

7. Winners for three new award categories, the “Best Sport Event of the Year (International)”, “Best Sport Event of the Year (Local)”, and “Most Inspiring Sports Story of the Year” were also revealed at the event.

The winners are:

Best Sport Event of the Year (International): 2011 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
Best Sport Event of the Year (Local): OCBC Cycle Singapore
Most Inspiring Sports Story of the Year: “Not just flesh and blood, but the football HEART” by Terrence Voon from The Straits Times

8. The SSA is our country’s most prestigious recognition for our athletes since its introduction in 1967. Honouring our athletes’ achievements and contributions, the SSA pays tribute to our athletes who have gone head to head with some of the best in the world to bring glory to our country.

Annex A - List of Awardees

Meritorious Awards

I. Sportsboy/ Sportsgirl Meritorious Awards (Individual)

S/N	AWARDEE	SPORTS
01	New Hui Fen	Bowling
02	Terry Tay Wei An	Gymnastics
03	Elisa Yukie Yokoyama	Sailing
04	Audrey Yong Pei Lin	Sailing
05	Shana Lim Jia Yi	Swimming
06	Teo Zhen Ren	Swimming
07	Arren Quek Xin Hui	Swimming
08	Jeremy Kevin Mathews	Swimming
09	Isabelle Li Siyun	Table Tennis
10	Muhd Norhalim Mohd Zahruddin	Taekwondo

II. Sportsboy/ Sportsgirl Meritorious Awards (Event)

S/N	AWARDEE	SPORTS
01	National Optimist Sailing Team at the Asian Team Racing Championship Fathin Rasyiqin Binte Mohd Firdaus Andre Chew Jann Jillian Lee Sook Ying Joshua Matthew Lim Tze Han Loh Jia Yi	Sailing
02	National Table Tennis Junior Men’s Team Kerry Tan Kiat Yi Clarence Chew Zheyu Tay Jit Kiat Pang Xuejie	Table Tennis
03	National Table Tennis Junior Women’s Team Ng Xue Qi Chau Hai Qing Cheryl Tang Jiawen Isabelle Li Siyun	Table Tennis

III. Sportsboy/ Sportsgirl Meritorious Awards (Team Sport)

S/N	AWARDEE	SPORTS
01	National Hockey Under-18 Boys’ Team Nur Ashriq Ferdaus Ong Pang Chian Samudra Setya Putra Zulfadli Jasni Ismail Amirul Asyraf Shafiq A Rashid Mohd Fadzly Bin Mohd Adam Silas A Razak Aloysius Lim Ting Zhao Ashraff Bin Alias Muhammad Hidayat Bin Mat Rahim Karleef Sasi Abdullah Timothy Goh Kai Yang Muhd Syakiran Bin Muhd Ya’kob Muhammad Haseef Bin Salim Jaspal Singh Grewal Rahmat B Abd Jalil Al’fien Amir Syamirul Arshad	Hockey

V. Meritorious Awards (Event)

S/N	AWARDEE	SPORTS
01	National Bowling Women’s Team New Hui Fen Jazreel Tan Shi Hua Daphne Tan Shi Jing Shayna Ng Lin Zhi Cherie Tan Shi Hua Jasmine Yeong-Nathan	Bowling
02	National Athletics 4x100m Relay Men’s Team Muhd Elfi Mustapa Gary Yeo Foo Ee Calvin Kang Li Loon Lim Yao Peng Muhd Amirudin Jamal Lee Cheng Wei	Athletics
03	National Canoeing Women’s K2 Team Suzanne Seah Stephenie Chen Jiexian	Canoeing
04	National Bowling Women’s Doubles Team (World Cup) New Hui Fen Jazreel Tan Shi Hua	Bowling
05	National Bowling Women’s Doubles Team (Asian Cup) Daphne Tan Shi Jing Bernice Lim Hui Ying	Bowling
06	National Bowling Women’s Doubles Team (Commonwealth Championship) Geraldine Ng Su Yi Shayna Ng Lin Zhi	Bowling
07	National Women Artistic Gymnastics Team Rachel Giam Pei Shi Nur Atikah Nabilah Binte Mud Jufrie Krystal Khoo Oon Hui Lim Heem Wei Foo En Ning Joey Tam Jing Ying	Gymnastics
08	National Sailing 470 Men’s Team Russell Kan Tsung Liang Terence Koh Seng Kiat	Sailing
09	National Sailing 470 Women’s Team Dawn Liu Xiaodan Sara Tan Li Ching	Sailing
10	National Bowling Team Geraldine Ng Su Yi Shayna Ng Lin Zhi Jason Yeong-Nathan Remy Ong	Bowling
11	National Shooting 10m Air Rifle Women’s Team Jasmine Ser Xiang Wei Cheng Jian Huan Sally Li Yafei	Shooting
12	National Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay Men’s Team Russell Ong Kai Yi Danny Yeo Kai Quan Clement Lim Yong’En Arren Quek Xin Hui	Swimming
13 14	National Swimming 4x100m Freestyle Relay Women’s Team & National Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay Women’s Team Koh Hui Yu Mylene Ong Chui Bin Amanda Lim Xiang Qi Tao Li	Swimming
15	National Table Tennis Women’s Team Feng Tianwei Wang Yuegu Yu Mengyu Sun Beibei Li Jiawei	Table Tennis
16	National Table Tennis Men’s Doubles Team Ma Liang Pang Xuejie	Table Tennis
17	National Swimming 4x100m Medley Relay Women’s Team Shana Lim Jia Yi Amanda Lim Xiang Qi Yeo Samantha Louisa Ginn Tao Li	Swimming
18	National Swimming 4x200m Freestyle Relay Men’s Team Danny Yeo Kai Quan Clement Lim Yong’En Jeremy Kevin Mathews Teo Zhen Ren	Swimming

MAIN AWARDS | S/N | AWARDEE | SPORTS | | ——– | ——– | ——– | | 01 | Best Sports Event of the Year (Local) | OCBC Cycle Singapore
- Event Promoter: Spectrum Worldwide
- Official Sponsor: OCBC Group | 02 | Best Sports Event of the Year (International) | 2011 Formula 1 SingTel Singapore Grand Prix
- Event Organiser/Promoter: Singapore GP Pte Ltd
- Title Sponsor: SingTel Group | 03 | Most Inspiring Sports Story of the Year | “Not just flesh and blood, but the football HEART” by Terrence Voon from The Straits Times