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, borde ...

sent a delegation to compete at the

2008 Summer Paralympics The 2008 Summer Paralympic Games (), the 13th Summer Paralympic Games, took place in Beijing, China from September 6 to 17, 2008. As with the 2008 Summer Olympics, equestrian events were held in Hong Kong and sailing events in Qingdao. It was ...

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, represented by six athletes competing in four sports: swimming, sailing, equestrian and athletics. The country's flagbearer at the Games'

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was supposed to be Desiree Lim, a sailor. However, as the sailing events were held in

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, it was

Theresa Goh Theresa Goh Rui Si BBM (; born 16 February 1987) is a Singaporean swimmer and Paralympic medalist, with a bronze at the SB4 100m breaststroke at the 2016 Summer Paralympics. She holds the world records for the SB4 50 metres and 200 m ...

(swimming) who was the flagbearer on that day. The 2008 Summer Paralympics marked the first time Singapore had won a Paralympic medal of any kind.

Yip Pin Xiu Yip Pin Xiu (; born 10 January 1992) is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer. She is a five-time Paralympic gold medallist and 5 time World Champion, with two world records in the 50 m backstroke S2 and the 100 m backstroke S2. Yip is Singapore's ...

won two medals for swimming; gold in the women's 50 meter backstroke S3 and silver in the women's 50 meter freestyle S3.Singapore swimmer Yip clinches gold in 50m backstroke
,

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, 15 September 2008, retrieved on 13 December 2008. Laurentia Tan won two bronze medals in equestrian.. Due to the efforts by the medal winners, Yip was awarded the

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and Tan awarded the Public Service Medal.

Medalists

Sports

Athletics

Equestrian

Sailing

Singaporeans will compete in the following event in sailing:"National Line Up For 2008 Paralympic Sailing Competition"
, International Association for Disabled Sailing, 16 July 2008 *

Lim Kok Liang Desiree Lim or LIM may refer to: Name * Lim (Korean surname), a common Korean surname * Lim (Chinese surname), Hokkien, Hakka, Teochew and Hainanese spelling of the Chinese family name "Lin" * Liza Lim (born 1966), Australian classical composer Abbre ...

- Two-Person Keelboat - SKUD18 *

Tan Wei Qiang Jovin Tan or TAN may refer to: Businesses and organisations * Black and Tans, a nickname for British special constables during the Irish War of Independence. By extension "Tans" can now also colloquially refer to English or British people in general, e ...

- Two-Person Keelboat - SKUD18

Swimming

Women

References

External links

Beijing 2008 Paralympic Games Official SiteInternational Paralympic CommitteeTeam Singapore Beijing 2008 Olympics Microsite
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Nations at the 2008 Summer Paralympics

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