Yip Pin Xiu Named Straits Times Athlete of the Year

09 Mar 2016
Yip Pin Xiu Named Straits Times Athlete of the Year

29 Feb 2016

Award recognises SMU social science undergraduate's star performance at the Asean Para Games

SMU congratulates final-year School of Social Sciences undergraduate Yip Pin Xiu on being named Straits Times Athlete of the Year 2016. Click the link below to read about her well-deserved win and look out for an interview with her in the forthcoming March issue of SMU Engage, which was conducted shortly before this award was announced.

Main photo: Para-swimmer Yip Pin Xiu, 24, receiving her Straits Times Athlete of the Year award from Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Grace Fu. The world record-breaker and Asean Para Games champion edged out Shayna Ng (bowling), Shanti Pereira (athletics), Khairul Anwar (para-football) and 2014 winner Joseph Schooling (swimming) to become the second para-athlete after equestrian Laurentia Tan (2012) to win the annual award. ST photo: Neo Xiaobin.

 
 

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