Martina Is 2018's Best Sportswoman

2019 Singapore Sports Awards

It’s the battle of the heavyweights at the 2019 Singapore Sports Awards. In the Sportsman of the Year event, we have a three-corner “fight”. In the Red Corner... Three-time Pencak Silat World Champion and Singapore Sports School alumnus Sheik Farhan Sheik Alau'ddin, winning his third world title in 2018. In the Blue Corner... Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games double gold medallist, with a new Asian Games record, swimmer Joseph Schooling. And in the Orange Corner... Double gold medallist at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games, table tennis veteran Gao Ning.

Joseph defeated his rivals, Farhan and Gao Ning, to lift the title of Sportsman of the Year for the sixth time at the Singapore Sports Awards presentation ceremony on 14 May 2019.

Among the 12 awards that Singapore National Olympic Council and Sport Singapore presented to celebrate and recognise the achievements of the nation's top sportsmen, Sports School present and past student-athletes were strong contenders in five categories.

Martina Lindsay P Veloso, Singapore’s top performer at the Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games with 2 individual gold medals, was crowned Sportswoman of the Year. The Sports School alumna beat former Sports School student-athlete Roanne Ho Ru’En (Swimming) and compatriots Nurzuhairah Mohammad Yazid (Pencak Silat) and Vera Tan Yan Ning (Wushu) to the coveted award.

The Sportsgirl of the Year Award went to Constance Lien Tian-En, a Swimming Academy alumna, who won Singapore’s first Ju-Jitsu Women’s Under 62kg silver medal at the Jakarta-Palembang Asian Games. It was the sport’s debut at the Asian Games. Indoor skydiver Choo Yi Xuan, also formerly a swimmer, was named Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Team of the Year (Event) with partner Kyra Poh for their gold-medal win at the 2018 FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving.

Present and past student-athletes received 57 awards in total, which include Meritorious Awards for individual and team in the senior and junior categories.

AWARD RECIPIENTS

Sportswoman of the Year

Martina Lindsay P Veloso (Shooting alumna)

Sportsgirl of the Year

Constance Lien Tian-En (Jiu-Jitsu; swimming alumna)

Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Team of the Year (Event)

Indoor Skydiving Dynamic Two-Way Team (2018 FAI World Cup of Indoor Skydiving)

Choo Yi Xuan (Indoor Skydiving; DBS Year 1 student-athlete)

Meritorious Awards (Individual)

Pencak Silat

Abdul Raazaq Abdul Rashid (DSPM Year 1 student-athlete)

Abdul Raaziq Abdul Rashid (DSLM student-athlete)

Muhammad Iqbal Abdul Rahman (Alumnus)

Nurul Shafiqah Mohamed Saiful (Alumna) 

Nurul Suhaila Mohamed Saiful (Alumna)

Sheik Farhan Sheik Alau’ddin (Alumnus)

Sheik Ferdous Sheik Alau’ddin (Alumnus)

Siti Khadijah Mohamad Shahrem (DSPM Year 1 student-athlete)

Swimming

Roanne Ho Ru’En (Alumna)

Meritorious Awards (Event)

Bowling

Men’s Trios (Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games)

Alex Chong Wei Chien

Darren Ong Wei Siong

Muhammad Jaris Goh Ali Akbar Goh

Women’s Trios (Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games)

Bernice Lim Hui Ying (Alumna)

Daphne Tan Shi Jing (Alumna)

Men’s Team (2018 CGSE Million Tinkle World Men Bowling Championships)

Basil Dill Ng Jui Chang (Alumnus)

Darren Ong Wei Siong (Alumnus)

Keith Saw Hui-Xun (Alumnus)

Joel Tan Eng An (Alumnus)

Muhammad Jaris Goh Ali Akbar Goh (Alumnus)

Fencing

Women’s Foil Team (Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games)

Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier (Alumna)

Tatiana Wong Yu Rong (Alumna)

Pencak Silat

Artistic Male Doubles (18th World Pencak Silat Championship)

Nur Hakim Norshamsuddin (DSLM Year 2 student-athlete)

Artistic Male Team (18th World Pencak Silat Championship)

Hamillatu Arash Juffrie (DSLM student-athlete)

Nujaid Hasif Zainal Abidin (Extended IBDP student-athlete)

Sailing

Women’s 49erFX (Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games)

Cecilia Low Rui Qi (Alumna)

Swimming

Women’s 4x100m Medley Relay (Jakarta-Palembang 2018 Asian Games)

Hoong En Qi (Alumna)

Table Tennis

Women’s Team (Gold Coast 2018 Commonwealth Games)

Zhang Wanling (DSLM Year 3 student-athlete)

Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Meritorious Awards (Individual)

Badminton

Jaslyn Hooi Yue Yann (DBS Year 3 student-athlete)

Bowling

Quek Lu Yi (DBS Year 1 student-athlete)

Shin Zong Yi (Secondary 4 student-athlete)

Xavier Teo Jun Hao (DBS Year 2 student-athlete)

Fencing

Amita Marie Nicolette Berthier (Alumna)

Pencak Silat

Amirah Sahrin (DSPM Year 1 student-athlete)

Sheik Fayz Sheik Alau’ddin (Secondary 3 student-athlete)

Shooting

Ho Xiu Yi (Extended IBDP student-athlete)

Swimming

Maximillian Ang Wei (DLSM Year 2 student-athlete)

Table Tennis

Andy Wong Yan Kai (Secondary 4 student-athlete)

Goi Rui Xuan (Alumna) 

Koen Pang Yew En (Secondary 4 student-athlete on LOA)

Zhou Jingyi (Secondary 2 student-athlete)

Sportsboy/Sportsgirl Meritorious Awards (Event/Team)

Bowling

Girls’ Doubles (19th Asian School Tenpin Bowling Championship)

Alena Dang Thanh Nhi (IBDP Year 6 student-athlete)

Colleen Pee (Secondary 3 student-athlete)

Girls’ Team (19th Asian School Tenpin Bowling Championship)

Alena Dang Thanh Nhi (IBDP Year 6 student-athlete)

Colleen Pee (Secondary 3 student-athlete)

Quek Lu Yi (DBS Year 1 student-athlete)

Pencak Silat

Artistic Female Doubles (4th World Junior Pencak Silat Championship)

Amirah Sahrin (DSPM Year 1 student-athlete)

Siti Fathimah Mohamad Shahrem (Secondary 4 student-athlete)

Shooting

Women's Junior 10m Air Rifle Team (2018 ISSF Junior World Cup, Suhl)

Adele Tan Qian Xiu (Extended IBDP student-athlete)

Ho Xiu Yi (Extended IBDP student-athlete)

Martina Lindsay P Veloso (Alumna)

Table Tennis

Men’s Junior Team (24th SEA Junior Table Tennis Championships)

Gerald Yu Zong Jun (DBS Year 2 student-athlete)

Koen Pang Yew En (Secondary 4 student-athlete on LOA)

Men’s Cadet Team (24th SEA Junior Table Tennis Championships)

Andy Wong Yan Kai (Secondary 4 student-athlete)

Izaac Quek Yong (Secondary 1 student-athlete)