Siew Kiah Hui (born 18 June 1996), known as Savannah Siew, is a

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, bor ...

an sailor. As the daughter of former national sailor,

Siew Shaw Her Siew Shaw Her (; born 17 July 1957) is a former Singaporean sailor who started his sailing career in 1974. Siew won a gold medal at the Asian Games and six gold medals at the Southeast Asian Games. He also represented Singapore in the Summer ...

, Siew followed in her father's footsteps and started learning sailing at the age of 7. Siew tasted her first success in 2012 at the 420 World Championships, winning gold medals at both the U16 and U18 categories. However, she missed getting a medal at the Open category, coming in at 4th. In 2013, Siew won a silver medal in both the Open category and U18 category at the 420 World Championships. She won the silver medal again in the Open category and the gold medal in the U18 category in 2014. Siew went on to win the gold medal in the 420 class at the

2013 Southeast Asian Games The 2013 Southeast Asian Games ( my, ၂၀၁၃ ခုနှစ် အရှေ့တောင် အာရှ အားကစား ပြိုင်ပွဲ), officially known as the 27th Southeast Asian Games, or the 27th SEA Games, and com ...

held at Myanmar. Siew's success continued at the Incheon Asian Games 2014 where she won a gold medal on the 420 class with

Kimberly Lim Lim Min (born 26 August 1996), known as Kimberly Lim, is a Singaporean sailor. She was a multiple medalist in various sailing classes in various editions of the Asian Games and also the champion of the Optimist World Championships in 2011. S ...

. However, after the 2014 Asian Games, Siew separated from her sailing crew, Lim, and changed to the 470 class while Lim to the 49er FX. Siew subsequently competed in the 470 class in the

2015 Southeast Asian Games The 2015 Southeast Asian Games ( ms, Sukan Asia Tenggara 2015; ; ta, 2015 தென்கிழக்கு ஆசிய விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்), officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games, o ...

. She came in third during the competition but was not awarded the bronze medal as there were only three teams for the race.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Siew, Savannah 1996 births Living people Singaporean female sailors (sport) Asian Games medalists in sailing Sailors at the 2014 Asian Games Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore SEA Games gold medalists for Singapore SEA Games medalists in sailing Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games 21st-century Singaporean women