1 SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 FORGING AHEAD 2019 was a year of historic !rsts and incredible wins for Team Singapore. Forging ahead of the competition, our athletes achieved multiple world number one rankings while also bringing home an impressive haul of 53 gold, 46 silver and 68 bronze medals at the 2019 SEA Games, together with the Most Valuable Player (MVP) award. Many new records were set amidst numerous podium !nishes throughout the year – a testament to Team Singapore’s tenacious spirit and commitment to excellence. As we celebrate Team Singapore’s outstanding performance in 2019, we also extend our deepest gratitude to our excellent coaches, capable support teams and many more who have made a difference SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE on this journey. 2 PROGRAMME Opening by Guest-of-Honour Mr Tan Chuan-Jin Speaker of Parliament & President of the Singapore National Olympic Council Welcome by Mrs. Jessie Phua Organising Chairperson, Singapore Sports Awards 2020 Best Sports Event of the Year (Local) Best Sports Event of the Year (International) Most Inspiring Sport Story of the Year Best Sports Photo of the Year Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Team of the Year (Event) Team of the Year (Event) Team of the Year (Team Sport) Coach of the Year Sportsgirl of the Year Sportsboy of the Year Sportswoman of the Year Sportsman of the Year SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE End of programme 3 MERITORIOUS AWARDS SPORTSBOY/ SPORTSGIRL INDIVIDUAL Athletics Marc Brian Louis Bowling Amabel Chua Jiaying Brandon Ong Kai Jun Xavier Teo Jun Hao Fencing Kiria Tikanah Abdul Rahman Maxine Wong Jie Xin Jiu-Jitsu Noah Lim Tian Run Sailing Radiance Koh Lee Wonn Kye Kenan Tan Kee Zen Shooting Ho Xiu Yi Silat Abdul Raazaq Bin Abdul Rashid Muhammad Syakir Bin Jeffry Swimming Christie May Chue Mun Ee Gan Ching Hwee Elena Lee Lee Na Pedersen Jonathan Tan Eu Jin Cherlyn Yeoh Chzie Lin Wushu Isabel Chua Xin Ting Heidi Kong Kai En Kimberly Ong Li Ling Zoe Tan Ziyi Tay Yu Xuan SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 4 MERITORIOUS AWARDS SPORTSBOY/ SPORTSGIRL (EVENT/TEAM) Bowling Jomond Chia Yu Sun Boys’ Doubles Brandon Ong Kai Jun 20th Asian Youth Tenpin Bowling Championships Boys’ Team Jomond Chia Yu Sun 20th Asian Youth Tenpin Brandon Ong Kai Jun Bowling Championships Xavier Teo Jun Hao Eugene Yeo Hanjie Dragon Boat Christine Hayashi Akane Junior Women’s Team Samrita Das IDBF World Dragon Boat Gan Jie Hui Championship 2019 Stephanie Gay En Ning Nguyen Hoang Ngoc Anh Kho Rui-En Koh Rui Xin Celeste Lee Lin Xuan Soh Zhi Yi Sue-Ann Tan Kai Ying Joie Teo Yi Yun Anthea Woo Kei Ean Yap Yu Ting Sailing Lee Riane Women’s Under-17 Team Faith Hailey Toh 29er World Championship 2019 Table Tennis Goi Rui Xuan Junior Mixed Doubles Koen Pang Yew En SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 2019 Commonwealth Championships 5 MERITORIOUS AWARDS INDIVIDUAL Badminton Loh Kean Yew Yeo Jia Min Bowling New Hui Fen Bernice Lim Hui Ying Chess Gong Qianyun Cycling Riyadh Hakim Bin Lukman Luo Yiwei Golf James Leow Ice Skating Chloe Ing Xuanling Jiu-Jitsu Constance Lien Tian En Lawn Bowls Pang Heng Heck Sailing Ryan Lo Jun Han Shooting Martina Lindsay P Veloso Silat Muhammad Iqbal Bin Abdul Rahman Abdul Raaziq Bin Abdul Rashid Sheik Farhan Bin Sheik Alau’ddin Nurul Suhaila Binte Mohd Saiful Nurzuhairah Binte Mohammad Yazid Adib Farhan Bin Ramli SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 6 MERITORIOUS AWARDS INDIVIDUAL Swimming Lionel Khoo Chien Yin Amanda Lim Xiang Qi Joseph Isaac Schooling Teong Tzen Wei Table Tennis Lin Ye Sambo/Wrestling Muhammad Nazri Bin Sutari Wushu Jowen Lim Si Wei Jesse Colin Adalia Yong Yi Xiang Vera Tan Yan Ning SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 7 MERITORIOUS AWARDS EVENT Cricket Aahan Gopinath Achar Men’s Team Vinoth Mandrayar Baskaran World T20 Asia Surendran Chandramoha Region Final Timothy Hays David Avi Dixit Aritra Dutta Rezza Gaznavi Anantha Krishna Amjad Mahboob Navin Michael Param Anish Edward Paaram Janak Prakash Sidhant Manpreet Singh Aryaman Uchil Dragon Boat Melissa Chang Hui Min Women’s Team Janice Goh Li Ling IDBF World Dragon Lam Li Ting Boat Championship Lew Si Hsien Lim Xiaowei Renee Sherlynn Simone Loh Xue Ying Diana Nai Min Zhen Denise Lindsey Ng Yu Hui Amelie Tan Chen Xi Vanessa Tan Huiwen Sherdyn Teng Siew Ting Eunice Thiam Jia Min Joyce Wee Zheng Janice Yoong Yuan Ling SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 8 MERITORIOUS AWARDS EVENT Fencing Kevin Jerrold Chan Men’s Foil Team Joshua Lim Ian 2019 SEA Games Jet Ng Shang Fei Darren Tan Jun Hao Floorball Haziq Abdul Wahab Men’s Team Abdul Mateen Amir Mizra Asia Oceania Floorball Chan Li Yang Confederation Cup Jeremy Chia Chun Yin Yeung Haleef Hairon Sean Huang Devanand M Nicholas Low Ng Juin Jie Lee Chee Yong Lim Jian Hong Vignesa Pasupathy Glendon Phua Suria R Syazni Ramlee Joshua Seow Akmal Shaharudin Jenmark Sorreda Jared Tan Thaddeus Tan Yeo Kaixiang Zong Wei Tng SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 9 MERITORIOUS AWARDS EVENT Lawn Bowls Goh Quee Kee Women’s Triples Lim Poh Eng 2019 SEA Games Shermeen Lim Xin Yi Sailing Kimberly Lim Min 2019 49erFX World Cecilia Low Rui Qi Championships Silat Nur Azlyana Binte Ismail Artistic Female Team Nurzuhairah Binte Mohd Yazid 5th Asian Pencak Silat Siti Nazurah Binte Mohd Yusoff Championship Artistic Male Doubles Sya!q Syazry Bin Mohd Abdul Majid 5th Asian Pencak Silat Nur Hakim Bin Norshamsuddin Championship Artistic Female Doubles Nur Azlyana Binte Ismail 5th Asian Pencak Silat Nurhanishah Binte Shahrudin Championship Swimming Darren Chua Yi Shou Men’s 4x100m Freestyle Quah Zheng Wen Relay Team Joseph Isaac Schooling 2019 SEA Games Jonathan Tan Eu Jin Men’s 4x100m Medley Darren Chua Yi Shou Relay Team Lionel Khoo Chien Yin 2019 SEA Games Quah Zheng Wen Joseph Isaac Schooling SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 10 MERITORIOUS AWARDS EVENT Swimming Darren Chua Yi Shou Men’s 4x200m Freestyle Quah Zheng Wen Relay Team Joseph Isaac Schooling 2019 SEA Games Jonathan Tan Eu Jin Women’s 4x100m Amanda Lim Xiang Qi Freestyle Relay Team Quah Jing Wen 2019 SEA Games Quah Ting Wen Cherlyn Yeoh Chzie Lin Women’s 4x100m Christie Chue Mun Ee Medley Relay Team Elena Lee Lee Na Pedersen 2019 SEA Games Quah Jing Wen Quah Ting Wen Table Tennis Feng Tianwei Women’s Team 2019 Goi Rui Xuan ITTF-ATTU Asian Table Lin Ye Tennis Championships Wong Xin Ru Yu Mengyu Underwater Hockey Jonathan Chan Tuan San Men’s Team Marcus Chua Kuan Long 2019 SEA Games Kok Kiat Han Kwan Chuek Hay Kerby Vincent Law Sai How Simon Lee Yuek Lun Lim Wee Lit Rudy Kurniawan Liu Dongliang Lucas Ong Xian Da SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE Twang Jia Ye Samuel Wong Yew Kong 11 BEST SPORTS EVENT OF THE YEAR (LOCAL) OCBC CYCLE 2019 EVENT ORGANISER PICH Event Management Pte Ltd EVENT OWNER /TITLE SPONSOR OCBC Bank SANCTIONING BODY Singapore Cycling Federation OCBC Cycle 2019 offered 6,800 participants a chance to bond with friends and family at annual cycling !esta. Supporting Singapore’s drive to waste less, OCBC Bank put its signature OCBC Cycle 2019 event through a rigorous green audit process – and became the !rst sports event here to earn the Singapore Environment Council’s Eco Event certi!cation with green innovations such as pairing with their sponsor, F&N, on recycling projects and by tagging event participation to planting of trees. The green label is intended to recognise events in Singapore that take proactive steps to use less and green more, benchmarked against a set of stringent environment compliance guidelines. The certi!cation is the latest validation of OCBC Bank’s on-going push to create a positive environmental impact. As part of that push, OCBC Bank committed to plant one tree for every 50 cyclists who registered for OCBC Cycle 2019. As a result, 140 trees were planted on 1 June 2019 at Dairy Farm Nature Park. In a !rst for a sporting event in Singapore, single-use plastics were eliminated from the event pack collection process. Through SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE careful planning, the organisers managed to prune almost 40,000 unnecessary items – from bubble wrap to ziploc bags – compared 13 to previous editions of OCBC Cycle. PLAY INCLUSIVE 2019 EVENT ORGANISER Special Olympics Singapore, SportCares & Ministry of Education TITLE SPONSOR SportCares Play Inclusive, Singapore’s largest uni!ed sports competition for persons with and without disabilities, returned for a second year with the addition of Goalball, a sport for persons with visual impairment. This year, the organisers expanded the participating disability types to include both the intellectual and visual disability’s community. More than 700 participants teamed up as uni!ed teams to train and compete in badminton, basketball, football, "oorball and goalball. This event is part of an initiative where students with and without intellectual disabilities or visual impairment train and play together in uni!ed teams to build friendships through shared sporting experiences. Play Inclusive aims to create awareness and to include everyone to a platform of structured play. SINGAPORE SPORTS AWARDS 2020 AWARDS SPORTS SINGAPORE 14 STANDARD CHARTERED SINGAPORE MARATHON 2019 EVENT ORGANISER IRONMAN Asia TITLE SPONSOR Standard Chartered Bank SANCTIONING BODY Singapore Athletics The Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon is an iconic national event and a highlight on Singapore’s sporting calendar. On every !rst Sunday of December, tens of thousands of participants from all over the world and all walks of life run past some of Singapore’s most iconic landmarks and vibrant skylines such as Marina Bay Sands, Gardens by the Bay and the Esplanade.