YOG: China's Dai Jun takes gold in 400m youth men's swimming event
SINGAPORE : China's Dai Jun has taken the 400m youth men's swimming gold at the Singapore Sports School.
Dai won in a time of 3 minutes, 50.91 seconds.
He beat South Africa's Commonwealth Youth Games champion Chad Le Clos, who took silver, by less than half a second.
Hungary's Peter Bernal won the bronze.
Meanwhile, Azerbaijan have taken two gold medals in the 50kg and 42kg boys' Greco-Roman wrestling events.
At Suntec City Convention Centre, Elman Mukhtarov beat Nurbek Hakkulov
of Uzbekistan for the 50kg gold, while Kyrgystan's Shadybek Sulaimanov
took the bronze.
In the 42kg category, Azerbaijan's Murad Bazarov defeated Yosvanys Pena
Flores to clinch the gold. And Akan Baimaganbetov grabbed the bronze.
Over in the 58kg boys' event, Krygystan's Umatbek Amatov took the gold
after beating Olexandr Lytvynov of the Ukraine. And Russia's Artur
Suleymanov finished with the bronze.
Over in badminton at the Singapore Indoor Stadium, Singapore's Huang
Chao started his boys' singles campaign with a 2 games to 1 victory in
Pool H.
The 18-year-old beat India's Sairaneeth Bhamidipati 21-12, 18-21, 21-17.
Huang will face Peru's Mario Cuba in his next group game on Monday.
And over at the Kallang Tennis Centre, Singapore's hope in the girls' singles event, Stefanie Tan, is out.
The 17-year-old battled for an hour and 40 minutes, but eventually lost
6-2, 6-3 to Russia's Daria Gavrilova in the first round. - CNA/ms
YOG: NZealand gets 1st medal after 17-year-old clinches Boys' Triathlon Gold
SINGAPORE: It's Day 2 of the Youth Olympic Games and it's celebrations for the New Zealand contingent as Aaron Barclay's won his country's first medal of the YOG.
The 17 –year- old clinched the Boys' Triathlon Gold medal in a time of 54 minutes 41.49 seconds on Monday morning at East Coast Park.
Aaron was 14 seconds faster than Kevin McDowell of the USA, while Austria's Alois Knabl took the bronze.
As for Singapore triathlete Scott Ang, he finished 29th out of 32 competitors, with his time of 1 hour 2 minutes 15.11 seconds.
The 3rd and final gold medal in Triathlon, will take place on Thursday in the 4-person Mixed Team Relay.
Meanwhile over to the qualifying heats from swimming, Singapore's
Pang Sheng Jun did not make the cut for the Finals of the 200meters
Individual Medley, after finishing in 16th place overall.
But fans will get to see South Africa's rising star Chad le Clos (Chad
le Claire) in action, as he was the second fastest qualifier at the
Singapore Sports School this morning.
The 18 year old Commonwealth Youth Games champion, will be looking to
add on to last night's silver medal in the 400meters Freestyle.
Checking in with the 100meters Butterfly heats, Singapore's pairing of
Rainer Ng and Sheng Jun crashed out while Kenneth To from Australia
advanced to the semifinals, with the fastest qualifying time of 54.16
seconds.
Chad le Clos (Chad le Claire) will also feature in the semis for this event.
As for Dai Jun who struck gold in last night's 400 meters Freestyle, the
Chinese sensation returns Monday night to do battle in the 200 meters
Final.
Singapore's Clement Lim did well but missed the Final 8, by just 2 seconds.
And over in the Girls' 100 meters Freestyle, Australia's Emma McKeon was
the fastest in qualifying with her time of 56.04 seconds.
She advances to this evening's semi-finals, together with Singapore's
Amanda Lim, who was 2 seconds slower than her Aussie rival.
Looking at the 200meters Butterfly, Hungarian teenager Boglarka Kapas
will lead the pursuit of her country's 1st YOG medal, after qualifying
fastest.
And in the 4 x 100 meter Medley Relays, Team Singapore failed to qualify for the Final, by just 4 seconds.
But surprisingly, the American Girls are also out of this relay event,
which leaves the Gold medal to be contested tonight, by the other
traditional powerhouses from Australia, China and Russia.
And finally in badminton round-robin action, Singapore's Huang Chao beat
Mario Cuba of Peru 21-15, 21-10 to keep his quarterfinal hopes alive. -
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YOG: Singapore wins its first YOG medal
SINGAPORE: Singapore has won its first medal at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
Daryl Tan secured the bronze in the Boys' Under-55kg taekwondo event at the Suntec International Convention Centre.
The 17-year-old Raffles Junior College student made it to the last four after beating Myanmar's Shein Naing Dwe Shein.
But in the semis, Daryl was no match against Kaveh Rezaei of Iran, the World Junior champion.
The Iranian was in total control, winning 12-0 over three rounds in just 10 minutes.
The bronze medal was awarded to both losing semi-finalists.
Over at the Singapore Sports School, South African swimmer Chad le Clos stormed home in 2 minutes, 0.68 seconds to win gold in the Boys' 200-metre Individual Medley.
He claimed victory by almost 2 seconds over Kenneth To of Australia. Le Claire's compatriot Dylan Bosch won the bronze.
In the Girls' 100-metre semi-final, Singapore's Amanda Lim finished 6th
in a time of 57.99 seconds and failed to qualify for the finals in her
pet event.
Emma McKeon from Australia and China's Tang Yi topped their heats to emerge as gold medal favourites.
In the Boys' 100-metre breaststroke, Nicolas Schafer beat Russia's Anton
Lobanov to clinch the first gold medal for Australia. His time of 1
minute 1.03 second was the fastest by 6 hundredths of a second.
In the Boys' 100-metre backstroke, He Jianbin of China clinched gold in a time of 55.16 seconds.
Israel's Yarkov Toumarkin snatched the silver after finishing a tenth of
a second back, while Lavrans Solli of Norway clinched the bronze.
In the Girls' 100-metre backstroke, Daryna Zevina took the gold in 1 minute 1.51 seconds.
In the Girls' 200-metre butterfly final, Hungary's Boglarka Kapas won the gold in 2 minutes, 8.72 seconds.
Spain's Judit Ignacio took the silver, while Liu Lan of China won the bronze.
In the Boys' 200-metre freestyle final, Russian Andrey Ushakov was triumphant, winning gold in 1 minute, 49.81 seconds.
Venezuela's Cristian Quentero clinched the silver, while Singapore-born Canadian Jeremy Bagshaw took the bronze.
In the Girls' 50-metre breaststroke final, Canada's Rachel Nicol claimed the gold in a time of 32.06 seconds.
Martina Carraro of Italy won silver, 4 tenths of a second behind. And Portugal's Ana de Pinho Rodriguez took the bronze.
Over in wrestling, in the Girls' Under-60kg freestyle, Battsetseg Baatarzorig of Mongolia won the gold.
Pooja Dhanda of India got the silver and Lipatova Svetlana of Russia won the bronze.
In the Girls' Under-70kg freestyle, Dorothy Yeats of Canada won the
gold, Jinju Moon of South Korea the silver and Karyna Stankova of
Ukraine the bronze.
In the Girls' Under-46kg category, Yu Miyahara of Japan clinched the
gold. Iulia Leorda of Moldova won the silver and Petra Olli of Finland
the bronze.
In the Girls' Under-52kg freestyle, Patimat Bagomedova took the gold.
The silver medal was won by Yuan Yuan of China and Nilufar Gadaeva of
Uzbekistan secured the bronze.
Meanwhile Team Singapore's badminton player Huang Chao continued his winning form.
The China-born Singaporean beat Mario Cuba of Peru 21-15, 21-10 and then
went on to defeat New Zealand's Asher Richardson 21-7, 21-8 for a place
in the quarterfinals.
On Sunday, the 18-year-old Singaporean upset the number two seed, India's Sairaneeth Bhamidipati, winning 21-12, 18-21, 21-17.
- CNA/ir
YOG: S'pore's Amanda Lim through to semi-finals of 50m Butterfly event
SINGAPORE: It's Day 3 of the Youth Olympic Games and over in selected swimming results, Singapore's Amanda Lim is through to the semi-finals of the 50 meters Butterfly event.
At the Singapore Sports School on Tuesday morning, the 17-year-old timed 29.48 seconds in the heats.
Over to the 100 meters Breaststroke, Rachel Nicol of Canada was the fastest qualifier in 1 minute 09.87 seconds.
But Singapore's Cheryl Lim finished 21st out of 29 places overall.
Next up is Kaitlyn Jones as she'll be gunning for her second Gold medal of the Games.
Having won the 200 meters Individual Medley on Sunday, the American was
the fastest in qualifying for tonight's 200 meters Backstroke Final.
But the 15-year-old will face the challenge from Barbora Zavadova of the
Czech Republic, who took the bronze in the Individual Medley two nights
ago.
Onto the Boys' 50 meters Freestyle qualifiers, Andrii Govorov was the quickest in 22.62 seconds.
The Ukrainian advances to the semifinals together with other favorites in Australia's Kenneth To and Spain's Aitor Martinez.
And Singapore's Clement Lim also made the cut for the last 16 with his time of 23.86 seconds.
More good news for the Republic as the Boys quartet of Clement, Rainer
Ng, Pang Sheng Jun and Arren Quek, will feature in tonight's 4 by 100
meter Freestyle Finals.
Earlier on Tuesday, our Boys clocked the 7th fastest time of 3 minutes 28. 66 seconds.
The foursome managed to knock out the likes of Germany , Japan and Brazil to reach the last eight.
The relay final is coming up at 730pm, with Team Singapore in Lane 1.
Over in selected 3-on-3 basketball results, our Singapore Boys crashed to their 3rd successive defeat at Scape Youth Park.
They went down to Israel 27-14 in a Group C encounter.
Turkey and the USA are currently in the top 2 positions of this Group.
Meanwhile, Croatia wiped out South Africa 33-4 in a Group D clash, to produce the tournament's biggest lopsided scoreline.
Egypt beat Group B Leaders Lithuania 33-31 while Serbia hammered Group A
leaders 34-14 in a top-of-the table Group A meeting. - CNA/vm
YOG Day 4 update at 12.15pm
We begin with this morning's qualifying action in swimming as Russia's Alexandra Papushka was the fastest in the Girls' 50 metres Breaststroke.
The 17 year old leads the pack of 16 into the semi-finals with her time of 29.64 seconds.
Singapore's Adeline Winata will also feature in the semis this evening.
Over in the 200 Free (Freestyle) for Girls',
The Republic's Amanda Lim missed the cut for the final by less than 3 seconds.
The 17 year old timed 2 minutes 4.68 seconds.
But the real battle will be between Tang Yi of China and Australia's Emma McKeon.
Last night, Tang Yi beat her Aussie rival for the Gold in the 100 metres Freestyle.
And tonight, both will go head-to-head again at the Singapore Sports School.
Switching to the Boys' 50 metres Butterfly,
Singapore's Pang Sheng Jun is through to the semi-finals after finishing 10th fastest overall.
And despite having reached the Finals of the 4 x 100 metres freestyle
relay yesterday, the quartet comprising Rainer Ng, Clement Lim, Sheng
Jun and Arren Quek, fell short in this morning's heats of the 4 x 100
Medley relay.
The Singapore side finished out of the top 8 by just 3 seconds.
And over in the 200 metres Breaststroke,
Nicholas Schaffer from Australia looks good for the Gold, after coming out tops in the heats.
At 2 minutes 14.64 seconds, the 18 year old was some 3 seconds faster than Thailand's Ketin Nuttapong.
Let's turn the focus to some selected results from 3-on-3 Boys' Basketball,
Team Singapore crashed to their 4th straight defeat in Group C, by losing 31-21 to the USA.
And Greece maintained their lead at the top of Group A, by taking out India 33-20.
Well coming up this afternoon, don’t forget to catch Singapore’s
Taekwondo exponent Christopher Lee in the Quarterfinals of the Under-73
Kilogram category.
That’s from 3.45pm onwards Live on Channel 5.
-- 938Live
YOG Day 4 update at 3.25pm
Over at Bishan Stadium, Singapore's track and field athletes began their campaigns today.
In the Boys' 1,000 metres qualifier, Zachary Ryan Devaraj finished 8th out of 11 runners in a time of 2 minutes 32.27seconds.
The 15-year-old bettered his previous best mark by 5 tenths of a second.
And despite failing to qualify for the top 8, the Anglo Chinese School
(Independent) student will feature in the B finals of the 1000 metres on
Sunday.
Looking at the Girls' 100 metres heats, Singapore Sports School student Liang Wei clocked 12.79 seconds to finish in 4th place.
That was well below her personal best time of 12.58 seconds.
And over in the 100metres for Boys,
Great Britain's David Bolarinwa clocked 10.62 seconds for the fastest time in the heats.
And he's set up a mouthwatering clash with Odean Skeen of Jamaica who
clocked 10.63 and Thai sprinter Jirapong Meenapra ran in a time of
10.72seconds.
In Weightlifting,
In the Boy's under 77kg Final, Russia's Artem Okulov won the gold lifting a total of 327kg.
Thailand's won the silver and Kazakhstan took bronze.
On to Rowing and the Boy's Single Sculls Final A, Rolandas Mascinskas of Lithuania finished with a time of 3 minutes 13.82 seconds, winning gold.
Germany clinched the silver and bronze went to Romania.
In the Girl's event, Judith Sievers of Germany won gold, finishing the 1000m distance in 3 minutes 44.21 seconds.
Nataliia Kovalova of Ukraine got the silver just 4 tenths of a second behind, while France secured the bronze.
In the Boy's Pairs Final A, Grega Domanjko and June Grace of Slovenia won the gold with a time of 3 minutes 5.65 seconds.
Greece won the silver and Australia received the bronze.
In the Girl's Pairs, Georgia Howard-Merrill and Fiona Gammond clinched Great Britain’s second gold of the Games in a time of 3 minutes 28.6 seconds.
The girls from Australia secured the silver and Greece the bronze.
-- 938Live
YOG: Swimmer Rainer wins Singapore's first YOG silver medal
SINGAPORE: Singapore's Rainer Ng came in second to win the silver medal in the Boys' 50m backstroke event in the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
Rainer touched home in a time of 26.45 seconds at the Singapore Sports School, behind Trinidad & Tobago's Christian Homer who took gold in 26.36 seconds.
Kuwait's Abdullah Altuwaini and Australia Max Akerman clinched the joint bronze, one hundredth of a second behind.
It is Singapore's first silver medal in the Games and the first medal in the swimming competition.
Rainer said: "I really wish that I could have gotten gold for Singapore,
I mean the first gold medal of the Games for Singapore. I'm really
sorry that I missed out but I really tried my best. I guess that's what
you have to make do, you can't always win every time, so it's important
to learn from the mistakes I make."
Singapore now have one silver and two bronze medals.
In the Girls' backstroke semifinals, Singapore's Adeline Winata finished 8th and failed to qualify for the finals.
Meanwhile, Ukrainian Andrii Govorov emerged victorious in the Boys' 50m
freestyle. He clocked 22.35 seconds, with Australian Kenneth To second
at 22.82 seconds.
Aitor Martinez of Spain won the bronze.
In the Boys' 4x100m medley relay, Australia came out tops in a time of 3 minutes 42.5 seconds.
France were over a second behind and claimed silver. Germany won the bronze.
In the Girls' 200m freestyle, it was another victory for China as Tang Yi bagged the gold in 1 minute 58.78seconds.
Hungarian Boglarka Kapas won the silver while Australia's Emma McKeon settled for the bronze.
China's Liu Lan then won her second gold of the Games in the Girls' 50-metre butterfly, coming in with a time of 26.97 seconds.
In other results, Canadian Tera Van Beilen won the Girls' 100m
breaststroke, while in the Boys' 200m breaststroke, Italy's Flavio
Bizzarri won the gold.
In gymnastics, favourite Yuya Kamoto of Japan clinched the gold in the
Boys' Artistic Individual All-Around Final, with a score of 86.35.
Ukraine's Oleg Stepko won the silver with a score of 85.35 and Zhu Xiaodong got the bronze.
In taekwondo, South Korea's Jeon Soo Yeon won against Germany's Antonia
Katheder 4-1 to take gold in the Girls' Under-63kg final.
France and Spain both received bronze.
Over in the Boys' Under-73kg, Kim Jin Hak of South Korea took the gold after defeating Russia's Aliaskhab Sirazhov 6-4.
Lebanon and Ukraine won bronze.
In weightlifting, Georgi Shikov of Bulgaria won the gold in the Boys' Under-85kg event, lifting a total of 335kg.
Alexey Kosov of Russia lifted 1kg less and clinched the silver, while Ukraine received the bronze.
In sailing, Singapore's Audrey Yong ended the day 8th in the Girls' Techno 293 Windsurfer event.
She finished 4th and 8th in her two races on Wednesday and has a total
of 17 points. Israel's Naomi Cohen currently leads with 11 points.
Over in the Boys' Byte C II event, Darren Choy finished 24th in his
first race of the day but recovered to take second spot in the second
race.
He currently sits 8th overall, which is the same spot occupied by Singapore's Natasha Yokoyama in the Girls' event.
Yokoyama finished 23rd and 6th in her two races.
- CNA/ir
YOG: S'pore's Zachary Ryan Devaraj to feature in B finals of 1,000m run
SINGAPORE: It's Day 4 of the Youth Olympic Games and over at Bishan Stadium, Singapore's track and field athletes began their campaigns on Wednesday.
In the Boys' 1000 metres qualifier, Zachary Ryan Devaraj finished 8th out of 11 runners in a time of 2 minutes 32.27seconds.
The 15-year-old bettered his previous best mark by 5 tenths of a second.
And despite failing to qualify for the top 8, the Anglo-Chinese
School (Independent) student will feature in the B finals of the 1000
metres on Sunday.
Looking at the Girls' 100 metres heats, Singapore Sports School student Liang Wei clocked 12.79 seconds to finish in 4th place.
That was well below her personal best time of 12.58 seconds.
And over in the 100metres for Boys, Great Britain's David Bolarinwa clocked 10.62 seconds for the fastest time in the heats.
And he's set up a mouthwatering clash with Odean Skeen of Jamaica who
clocked 10.63 and Thai sprinter Jirapong Meenapra ran in a time of
10.72seconds.
In Weightlifting, Russia's Artem Okulov won the gold lifting a total of 327kg in the Boy's under 77kg Final.
Thailand's won the silver and Kazakhstan took bronze.
On to Rowing and the Boy's Single Sculls Final A, Rolandas Mascinskas of
Lithuania finished with a time of 3 minutes 13.82 seconds to win gold.
Germany clinched the silver and bronze went to Romania.
In the Girl's event, Judith Sievers of Germany won gold, finishing the 1000m distance in 3 minutes 44.21 seconds.
Nataliia Kovalova of Ukraine got the silver just 4 tenths of a second behind, while France secured the bronze.
In the Boy's Pairs Final A, Grega Domanjko and June Grace of Slovenia won the gold with a time of 3 minutes 5.65 seconds.
Greece won the silver and Australia received the bronze.
In the Girl's Pairs, Georgia Howard-Merrill and Fiona Gammond clinched
Great Britain’s second gold of the Games in a time of 3 minutes 28.6
seconds.
The girls from Australia secured the silver and Greece the bronze. - CNA/vm
YOG: Third bronze for Singapore
SINGAPORE: Singapore has won another bronze medal, this time in archery.
The Republic's Abdul Dayyan and Turkey's Begunhan Elif Unsal won the bronze medal playoff in the mixed team event, which was held at the Kallang Field on Thursday.
Needing a perfect score of 20, they beat Bangladesh's Mohamed Emdadul Haque Milon and Spain's Miriam Alarcon 20-19 in the tie-breaking set.
With the scores tied at 5-points all after the 5th set, the Turkey/Singapore pair needed 2 perfect 10 shots for the bronze.
And they delivered, with Singapore winning their 3rd bronze to go with one silver for the Games.
Other highlights on Thursday – day 5 of the competition -- include
various swimming events as well as the all-boys football match between
Singapore and Montenegro.
The Group D match, held at Jalan Besar Stadium, will be broadcast live on Channel 5 at 8.45pm.
The regular 9.30pm News on Channel 5 will be delayed to start at 10.45pm.
Meanwhile, Singapore's Amanda Lim, 17, finished eighth with 26.61
seconds at the heats Thursday morning to make it to the semi-finals.
Amanda is also leading the Singapore 4 x 100 metres freestyle team into Thursday evening's finals.
The quartet -- Amanda, Adeline Winata, Cheryl Lim and Chriselle Koh --
came in fourth in the qualifying race with a time of 4 minutes 01.27
seconds.
The girls also managed to make the cut as the eighth best team after edging out South Africa and Japan.
-CNA/wk
YOG: Singapore's Valerie Lim placed 18th in Modern Pentathlon
SINGAPORE : Valarie Lim, Singapore's sole athlete in the Modern Pentathlon competition for girls, finished in 18th position out of 24 competitors at the Youth Olympic Games on Saturday.
The Singapore Modern Pentathlon Association has hailed Lim's efforts as very credible.
That is because the 17-year-old Republic Polytechnic student only picked up the sport just a year ago.
Leydi Laura Moya Lopez from Cuba clinched the Gold with a total of
4,100 points, while Zsofia Foldhazi from Hungary took the Silver with
24 points back. The Bronze medal went to Anastasiya Spas from Ukraine.
Singapore's Lim was placed 18th with 3,408 points.
The competition also saw new laser guns being used rather than the traditional air pistols.
In table tennis, Singapore's Clarence Chew has one foot in the
quarterfinals after beating Sweden's Hampus Soderlund 3-1 in the second
group stage of the Boys' Singles.
The 14-year-old lost the first game 11-9, but bounced back taking the next three games 11-6, 11-9, 11-8.
With the win, Clarence now needs one more victory to ensure his place in the last 8 knockout stage. - CNA /ls
YOG: Singapore's paddlers Isabelle Li, Clarence Chew advance to round 16
SINGAPORE : Table tennis action kicked off on Saturday and there was a good showing by Singapore's paddlers at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
Both Isabelle Li and Clarence Chew cleared the first stage to advance to the round of 16 of the Girls' and Boys' Singles respectively.
They have already played their first match in the round of 16 on Saturday and will continue with their second and third opponents on Sunday.
In their first match in the round of 16, Li lost to Korean Yang Ha Eun 0-3, while Chew beat Sweden's Hampus Soderland 3-1.
14-year-old Chew lost the first game 11-9, but bounced back taking the next three games 11-6, 11-9, 11-8.
With the win, Chew now needs one more victory to ensure his place in the last 8 knockout stage.
Earlier in the first round group matches on Saturday, Li beat New
Zealand's Julia Wu 3-0 while Chew defeated Tunisia's Adem Hmam 3-1. -
CNA /ls
YOG: S'pore out of running for Girls' Volleyball semis
SINGAPORE: Athletes were in the midst of competing for 27 gold medals across eight sports on Day 8 of the Youth Olympic Games in Singapore on Sunday.
In the Girls' Volleyball, Team Singapore went down 0-3 to Japan in their second group match.
With their second straight defeat, Singapore are out of the running for the semi-finals and will instead compete in the playoff for 5th position.
In table tennis, Singapore's Isabelle Li entered the quarterfinals of the Girls' singles competition.
After having lost her first match in the second-round on Saturday night,
the 15-year-old recovered to beat her remaining two opponents at the
Indoor Stadium on Sunday to advance into the last eight.
In the Boys' singles campaign, Singapore's Clarence Chew is also in the
running for the last eight. He needs to beat his Nigerian opponent in
the final group match to advance.
- CNA/ir