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No Pride In 76% Of Medals Won By Foreign-Born Athletes

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The Commonwealth Games have ended in Glasgow, Scotland.

Singapore has won medals in 5 events at the Games – table-tennis, shooting, badminton, swimming, and gymnastics.

The total number of medals given out for the five events is 38.

Out of these 38 medals, 29 medals were won by foreign-born Singaporeans from different countries.

This means Singapore-born athletes won only 9 medals.

China-born Singaporeans collected the most number of medals – 23 – mainly from table-tennis.

The rest of the 29 medals were won by Indonesia- , Malaysia- and Thailand-born Singaporeans.

The final medal tally means that foreign-born Singaporeans collected a whopping 76% of the medals won by Singapore at the Games.

Singapore won 8 gold, 5 silver and 4 bronze medals in Glasgow.

This was a poorer showing than the 11-11-9 medal haul in 2010 in Delhi.

Do you feel proud that 76% of the medals were won by foreign-born athletes?

Here are the medal tally, with the athletes' birth place in brackets:

Singapore Commonwealth Games Medallists

GOLD MEDALS

TABLE TENNIS - Men's Singles

Zhan Jian (Wuhan, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Men's Doubles

Li Hu (Hebei, China)

Gao Ning (Hebei, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Singles

Feng Tian Wei (Harbin, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Doubles

Feng Tian Wei (Harbin, China)

Yu Mengyu (Liaoning)

TABLE TENNIS - Men's Team

Chew Zhe Yu

Li Hu (Hebei, China)

Zhan Jian (Wuhan, China)

Gao Ning (Hebei, China)

Yang Zi (Beijing, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Team

Feng Tian Wei (Harbin, China)

Isabelle Li Siyun

Yu Mengyu (Liaoning, China)

Lin Ye (Liaoning, China)

Zhou Yihan (Liaoning, China)

SHOOTING – 50m Rifle 3 Positions

Ser Xiang Wei Jasmine

SHOOTING – Women’s 10m Air Pistol

Teo Shun Xie

 

SILVER MEDALS

TABLE TENNIS - Men's Singles - Silver

Gao Ning (Hebei, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Singles

Yu Mengyu (Liaoning, China)

BADMINTON – Men’s Singles

Wong Zi Liang Derek

BADMINTON – Men’s Doubles

Triyachart Chayut (Thailand)

Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (Indonesia)

SWIMMING – 100m Fly

Joseph Isaac Schooling

 

BRONZE MEDALS

TABLE TENNIS - Men's Doubles

Zhan Jian (Wuhan, China)

Yang Zi (Beijing, China)

TABLE TENNIS - Women's Singles

Lin Ye (Liaoning, China)

BADMINTON – Mixed Team

Wong Zi Liang Derek

Danny Bawa Chrisnanta (Indonesia)

Triyachart Chayut (Thailand)

Huang Chao (Hubei, China)

Hee Yong Kai Terry (Penang, Malaysia)

Yao Lei (Jiangsu, China)

Shinta Mulia Sari (Jakarta, Indonesia)

Neo Yu Yan Vanessa

Fu Mingtian (Hubei, China)

Liang Xiao Yu (Nanjing, China)

GYMNASTICS – Artistic Individual Vault

Hoe Wah Toon

 

Foreign-born – 29 Medals

Singapore-born – 9 Medals

Total - 38

 

*Article first appeared on http://publicopinion.sg/70/no-pride-in-76%25-of-medals-won-by-foreign-bo...

 

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