EMBRACING ALL
(Tracking Sports Like Shooting, Archery, Golf & Cycling)
By Joshua Tan, TS Student Reporter, UWA
Sure. Popular sports like Football, Swimming and Track & Field are much watched here at the SEA Games in Vientiane. But Team Singapore is about embracing all sports. Some of the ones that are less followed have also yielded great results, like Shooting.
Shooting & Silat
We track what's ahead today (Dec 14) for our shooters as well as our athletes in sports like Silat and Archery. In Shooting, Gai Bin, Poh Lip Meng and Nigel Lim carry our hopes in the men's 50m pistol individual and team events. In Silat, the men in action are Zukhairil Zulhanif, Mohd Saifullah Julaimi, Mohd Saifuddin Julaimi, Mohd Elyasak Said, Mohd Shakir Juanda and Mohd Nur Shafiq Saiful. The women hoping to win medals are Nurindah Mursani, Nur Dinniyati Julaimi, Saiedah Said and Nur Zulaikha Zakaria.
Archery, Track & Field
In Archery, athletes in action include Abdul Dayyan Jaffar, Leow Ting Yue & Benson Ong (Men's Recurve) and Adriel Chua, Heng Fook Hup & Michael Ong (Men's Compound). The Women's Compound event will feature Vanessa Ho while Elizabeth Cheok, Vanessa Loh, Wendy Tan & Samantha Wong are fielded in the Women's Recurve event. In athletics, our lone representative today is Wan Lay Chi in the Women's Discus.
Other Sports
As the SEA Games competition reaches mid point, other Team Singapore athletes to look out for include cuesports' Charlene Chai in the 8-Ball Pool Singles (Women) event, and Cycling's Junaidi Hashim, Low Ji Wen, Daniel Loy & Calvin Sim (men's Massed Start) and Dinah Chan (women's Massed Start). Also out to make their mark are Golf's Jonathan Woo (pictured), Jonathan Leong, Lam Zhiqun & Johnson Poh; and Wushu's Tao Yijun,Seet Wee Key & Brendan Goh.