Located on Guillemard Road, the former Singapore Badminton Hall was built to host the 1952 Thomas Cup, which was first held in England in 1949 and won by the Malayan team. Although the games did not eventually take place in the building, subsequent Thomas Cup matches ...
The first international sports event ever held in Singapore was the 7th Southeast Asian Peninsular (SEAP) Games from 1 to 8 September 1973. There were 16 sporting events and a total of 1,623 athletes from seven countries who took part in the SEAP Games. Singapore ...
Badminton was introduced in Singapore in the early 19th century and reached the height of its success in the 1950s. As part of the Malayan team, Singapore clinched the inaugural Thomas Cup in 1949 and retained it in 1952 and 1955. Today, Singapore shuttlers continue ...
Established in 1929, the Singapore Badminton Association (SBA) is the official body for local matters pertaining to badminton, with the vision to make Singapore a “top badminton nation”. During the prewar and immediate postwar periods, the SBA was instrumental ...
Joscelin Yeo Wei Ling (b. 2 May 1979, Seoul, South Korea–) is a national swimmer of Singapore, and the only athlete on record to have won 40 gold medals at the Southeast Asian (SEA) Games. Yeo retired from competitive swimming in 2007, and is regarded as a legend ...
Congkak is a popular game of logic played throughout Asia, Africa and the Americas, with many adaptations. Known elsewhere as mancala, the version commonly played in the Malay Archipelago requires two players to share a wooden board with one row of seven holes ...
Capteh is a traditional game that requires great dexterity and balance in keeping a feathered shuttlecock in the air for as long as possible by kicking it up with the heel of the foot. A popular game among children in Singapore, it is also well-known internationally. ...
Singapore held its inaugural Grand Prix in mid-September 1961 called the Orient Year Grand Prix. It was renamed the Malaysia Grand Prix in 1962. After independence in 1965, Singapore held its own grand prix from 1966 called the Singapore Grand Prix, held around ...
Hopscotch is a traditional children’s game in which one or more players hop over a series of squares drawn on the ground. A puck or game piece is thrown progressively across the squares, and players have to hop their way across the hopscotch framework according ...
Kuti Kuti is a traditional children’s game in which two opposing players take turns to deftly flip colourful plastic tokens on top of those of their opponent. If a player’s token lands on top of an opponent’s token, the player then claims the opponent’s token as ...
The inaugural Asian Youth Games (AYG) was a regional multi-sport event held from 29 June to 7 July 2009. Hosted by Singapore, the games saw the participation of 43 National Olympic Councils (NOCs) from the Asian continent. A total of nine sports were contested ...
Gasing is a term that refers to both the Malay spinning top and the game of top spinning. Gasing was a popular game played in the kampongs (“villages” in Malay) of Singapore and Malaysia, especially among members of the Malay community. Competitive gasing is still ...
The Road Courtesy Campaign launched by then Deputy Prime Minister Toh Chin Chye on 10 September 1966 is the first national campaign to try and instil more awareness of road safety in all road users. It marked the start of a sustained effort in Singapore to bring ...
Michael and Sonya Fong were Singapore's first couple to set out on a world motorcycle trip, which they called "Baby Quek's Big Adventure", on 17 September 1995. They travelled for nearly two years, returning on 14 May 1997. Riding their 1,000 cc BMW motorcycle, ...
On 25 May 1998 at 8.30 am Singapore time, Singaporeans Edwin Siew and Khoo Swee Chiow reached the summit of Mount Everest, marking Singapore’s first successful mountaineering expedition to the tallest peak in the world. It was Singapore’s second attempt at scaling ...
The Lion City Cup is a youth football tournament for boys. First held in 1977, the Cup has been credited with inspiring the creation of the FIFA U-16 World Championship. The Lion City Cup has featured national youth teams from Asia as well as the youth squads of ...
Jane Lee Zhen Zhen (b. 1984–) is the first woman from Southeast Asia to have scaled the Seven Summits – the highest summit on each of the seven continents of Africa, Antarctica, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. Lee was also the co-founder ...
Water polo in Singapore started with a group of boys who just wanted to have fun. However, a sense of camaraderie and team bonding soon pushed them to compete and they eventually emerged victorious. Today, water polo is a national sport.
The first vertical marathon in Singapore was held on 3 May 1987. A total of 130 men and 50 women took part in the race up 1,336 steps to reach the top of the world’s tallest hotel at the time: the 73-storey, 226-metre-tall Westin Stamford (now known as Swissôtel ...
The Singapore Recreation Club (SRC) is a social club founded on 23 June 1883 by members of the Eurasian community. It began as a men’s sports club and has since expanded to offer other social activities and opened its membership to residents in Singapore.