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'{{Use dmy dates|date=February 2013}} {{Infobox Olympics Singapore}} '''[[Singapore]]''' has sent athletes to most [[Summer Olympic Games]] held since 1948, when it was established as a separate British [[Crown Colony]] from the [[Straits Settlements]] just over three months before the commencement of the [[1948 Summer Olympics]]. It continued to send a team to the Games until [[1964 Summer Olympics|1964]] when Singapore was part of [[Malaysia]], which sent a combined team. Upon Singapore's full independence from Malaysia in 1965, the country continued to participate in all subsequent editions of the Summer Games except in [[1980 Summer Olympics|1980]] when the country participated in a large [[1980 Summer Olympics boycott|Olympic boycott]]. No athlete from Singapore has competed in any [[Winter Olympic Games]]. Singapore is making a bid to participate in the [[Winter Olympic Games]] in 2014 via construction of its first Olympic-sized ice skating rink in April 2012.<ref>{{cite news | title = Singapore's first Olympic-size ice skating rink opens at JCube mall | publisher = Channel NewsAsia | date = 2012-04-02 | url = http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1192746/1/.html}}</ref> The country has won four [[Olympic Games#Olympic champions and medalists|Olympic medal]]s, the first at the [[Singapore at the 1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Summer Games]], the second at the [[Singapore at the 2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Summer Games]]<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/369089/1/.html Olympics: Singapore paddlers settle for silver in women's team final]</ref> and the third and fourth at the [[Singapore at the 2012 Summer Olympics|2012 Summer Games]].<ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1217245/1/.html Olympics: Singapore win their first medal]</ref><ref>[http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/singaporelocalnews/view/1218650/1/.html Olympics: Singapore women paddlers win nation's second medal]</ref> The first medal was won by [[Tan Howe Liang]], who won a silver medal in lightweight weightlifting in [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960]]. In [[table tennis at the Summer Olympics|table tennis]], [[Jing Jun Hong]] and [[Li Jiawei]] came close to winning medals by finishing in fourth place at the [[2000 Sydney Olympics]] and [[2004 Athens Olympics]] respectively. Singapore sent a big contingent to the Beijing Olympics, and many felt that with many 'home' players in Singapore's squad, this was their best chance of winning a medal since 1960 - they were proven right. In the [[2008 Beijing Olympics]], Li Jiawei, together with [[Feng Tianwei]] and [[Wang Yuegu]], beat the [[South Korea at the 2008 Summer Olympics|South Korea Women's Table Tennis team]], composed of [[Dang Ye Seo|Dang Ye-Seo]], [[Kim Kyung Ah|Kim Kyung-Ah]] and [[Park Mi Young|Park 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 faced [[China at the 2008 Summer Olympics|host China]] in the gold medal final.<ref>[http://results.beijing2008.cn/WRM/ENG/INF/GL/92A/SIN_T.shtml Medallists for Singapore]</ref> In the [[2012 London Olympics]], Feng Tianwei beat [[Kasumi Ishikawa]] from [[Japan]] 4-0 in the Table Tennis Women's Singles Bronze Medal Match, winning Singapore's first individual Olympic medal in 52 years. In the Table Tennis Women's Team Bronze Medal Match, Li Jiawei, together with Feng Tianwei and Wang Yuegu, beat the South Korea team composing Dang Ye-Seo, Kim Kyung-Ah and Seok Ha-Jung 3-0, winning another bronze medal. The two bronze medals won at the 2012 London Olympics marks the first time in Singapore's history that more than one medal were won consecutively in a single Olympic Games. To date, athletes from Singapore have won a total of 4 medals at the Olympics. No athlete from Singapore has ever won a gold medal. ==List of medalists== {| class="wikitable sortable" |- !style="width:5em"| Medal !style="width:15em"| Name !style="width:15em"| Games !style="width:15em"| Sport !style="width:15em"| Event |- | {{silver medal}} || [[Tan Howe Liang]] || {{flagicon|ITA}} [[1960 Summer Olympics|1960 Rome]] || [[Image:Weightlifting pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]] || [[Weightlifting at the 1960 Summer Olympics - Lightweight|Lightweight]] |- | {{silver medal}} || [[Feng Tianwei]]<br>[[Li Jiawei]]<br>[[Wang Yuegu]] || {{flagicon|CHN}} [[2008 Summer Olympics|2008 Beijing]] || [[Image:Table tennis pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics|Table tennis]] || [[Table tennis at the 2008 Summer Olympics – Women's team|Women's team]] |- | {{bronze medal}} || [[Feng Tianwei]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]] || [[Image:Table tennis pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics|Table tennis]] || [[Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's singles|Women's singles]] |- | {{bronze medal}} || [[Feng Tianwei]]<br>[[Li Jiawei]]<br>[[Wang Yuegu]] || {{flagicon|United Kingdom}} [[2012 Summer Olympics|2012 London]] || [[Image:Table tennis pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics|Table tennis]] || [[Table tennis at the 2012 Summer Olympics – Women's team|Women's team]] |} ===Medals by sport=== {| {{MedalTable|type=Sport}} |- |align=left| [[Image:Table tennis pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Table tennis at the Summer Olympics|Table tennis]] || 0 || 1 || 2 || 3 |- |align=left| [[Image:Weightlifting pictogram.svg|25px]] [[Weightlifting at the Summer Olympics|Weightlifting]] || 0 || 1 || 0 || 1 |- ! Total || 0 || 2 || 2 || 4 |} ==References== {{commons category|Singapore at the Olympic Games}} {{reflist}} {{NationsinOlympics}} hello!!!!! never use wikipedia! [[Category:Singapore at the Olympics| ]]'