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]
| Personal information | |
|---|---|
| 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 |
Education
editTan studied at Raffles Junior College and National University of Singapore.[4]
Sailing career
editDuring 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 (archive)
- 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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