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Tan studied at [[Raffles Junior College]] and [[National University of Singapore]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Chettiar |first=Kamalarajan |date=1 April 2001 |title=Legal Practice and Laser Sailing |publisher=Singapore Law Gazette |url=https://v1.lawgazette.com.sg/2001-4/April01-feature2.htm |
Tan studied at [[Raffles Junior College]] and [[National University of Singapore]].<ref name=":0">{{cite news |last=Chettiar |first=Kamalarajan |date=1 April 2001 |title=Legal Practice and Laser Sailing |publisher=Singapore Law Gazette |url=https://v1.lawgazette.com.sg/2001-4/April01-feature2.htm |access-date= }}</ref> |
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Latest revision as of 07:00, 17 November 2024
| Personal information | |
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| Full name | Tan Kheng Siong |
| Born | 4 November 1974 Singapore |
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) |
| Weight | 82 kg (181 lb) |
| Sailing career | |
| Class | Dinghy |
| Club | Singapore Armed Forces |
Stanley Tan Kheng Siong (Tan Kheng Siong, born 4 November 1974 in Singapore[1]) is a retired Singaporean sailor, who specialized in the Laser class, and was Singapore's third double-Olympic sailor.[2] He represented his nation Singapore in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[3]
Education
[edit]Tan studied at Raffles Junior College and National University of Singapore.[4]
Sailing career
[edit]During his junior college years, Tan started Laser Sailing and participated in the Inter School Championship and various races in Singapore.
In 1993, Tan participated in the Laser Asian Pacific Championship in Auckland, New Zealand.[4]
Tan sailed for Singapore in the OK class at the 1995 Southeast Asian Games and won the silver medal.[4] At the 1997 Southeast Asian Games, he won the silver medal again in the same class.[4]
In 1999, Tan won the bronze medal in the Asia Sailing Championship.[4]
Before qualifying for his first Olympics in 2000, he had already won three Southeast Asian Games silver medals.[1]
Tan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed close to last (thirty-eighth) in the Laser class with a net grade of 275, finishing closer behind Malta's Mario Aquilina by a three-point deficit.[4][5]
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tan qualified in the Laser class by placing again, close to last, at seventy-seventh and obtaining a berth from the World Championships in Bodrum, Turkey. Tan posted a net grade of 322 points and improved his position to thirty-seventh in a fleet of forty-two sailors.[6]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Stanley Tan". Singapore National Olympic Council. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stanley Tan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
- ^ Dibb, Colin (23 July 2002). "Stanley Tan's Asian Games campaign update". Western Australia Laser Association. Archived from the original on 21 August 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
- ^ a b c d e f Chettiar, Kamalarajan (1 April 2001). "Legal Practice and Laser Sailing". Singapore Law Gazette.
- ^ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
- ^ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
External links
[edit]- Kheng Siong, Stanley Tan at World Sailing
- Kheng Siong Tan at Olympics.com
- Stanley Tan at Olympedia
- Stanley Tan at the Singapore National Olympic Council
- Stanley Tan at EW Barker Institute of Sports at the Wayback Machine (archived 9 May 2015)
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- 1974 births
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- Singaporean male sailors (sport)
- Singaporean sportsmen
- Olympic sailors for Singapore
- Sailors at the 2000 Summer Olympics – Laser
- Sailors at the 2004 Summer Olympics – Laser
- Sailors at the 2002 Asian Games
- Asian Games competitors for Singapore
- SEA Games silver medalists for Singapore
- SEA Games medalists in sailing
- Asian sailing biography stubs
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