Largest Display Of Coasters

10,032 coasters were neatly displayed at Gardens by the Bay on 25 Jul 2015. The 41m by 2m display was put up by University-YMCA Singapore, a club run by YMCA of Singapore whose members are SMU, NUS and NTU undergrads. To celebrate its 10th anniversary,  the members got the public to write on the coasters, the reasons that people should be thankful for. The event ...
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First Woman To Win Gold In Asian Games

Chee Swee Lee, 19, became the first Singaporean woman to win an Asian Games gold when she won the 400m race at the 1974 Teheran Games. She clocked 55.08 sec, smashing the 400m record by more than a second.
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Fastest Sprinter

UK Shyam holds the 100m sprint record with a time of 10.37 sec. At the World University Games in Beijing in 2001, he broke the 33-year-old record of 10.38 sec set by Canagasabai Kunalan. He equalled his own national record the same year at the SEA Games in Kuala Lumpur.
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Highest Taekwondo Grades Achieved

Lim Teong Chin is the only athlete to achieve an eighth dan in taekwondo, as recognised by the Singapore Taekwondo Federation, the World Taekwondo Federation and Kukkiwon. Wong Liang Ming is the highest-ranked female athlete with a seventh dan.
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First Asian Games Sailing Gold Medallist

Benedict Tan won the sailing gold medal at the 1994 Asian Games in Hiroshima. The young doctor was so well ahead of his competitors in the Laser class, that he didn’t even have to sail the final race. He was also the first recipient of a S$250,000-cash award under the SNOC’s Multi Million Dollar Award Programme. Tan was awarded Sportsman ...
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Most Number Of People Doing Action Songs Together

The Pri 4 – Sec 4 students of CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School had their Fun Run at the Sports Hub on 24 Jul 2015. After the run, 2,018 students sang a series of popular local songs with well synchronised actions against the city skyline as backdrop.
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Most Number Of People Playing Eraser Battle

1,525 pupils, parent volunteers, teachers and non-teaching staff of Woodlands Ring Primary School celebrated Racial Harmony Day on 21 Jul 2015. Donned in different ethnic costumes, everyone joined in a friendly game of eraser battle. Each player started off with five erasers. The objective of the game is to win as many erasers as possible by flipping one’s eraser until it ...
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