Singapore Breaks National Record With 82 Gold Medals The 28th SEA Games comes to a close tomorrow (16 June), Singapore has broken previous medal records with 82 Golds, 72 Silvers and 99 Bronzes at press time. That’s a whopping 253 medals. Source We come in second to Thailand, which has 87 Gold medals as of press time. Tearing down old records The highest number of gold medals Singapore previously even got close to was a 50 Gold record set in 1993. Back then, swimmer Joscelin Yeo who chopped up the pool to win nine Gold medals, which included 7 individual and 2 relay races. She still holds the record for winning the most number of gold medals in the Southeast Asian Games, with 40 gold medals over a span of eight SEA Games from 1991-2003. Athletes build new records with their blood, sweat and tears 2015 turned out to be even more spectacular. Singapore claimed its 51st Gold of this SEA Games last Tuesday when swimmer Quah Zheng Wen dominated the pool to win the men’s 400m individual medley. 21 swimming GOLD for Singapore! Quah Zheng Wen wins the 50m backstroke. His 11th medal of #SEAGames2015 pic.twitter.com/ZmKua6Rdqq — Jack Board (@JackBoard) June 11, 2015 […]
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