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Stanley Tan
Personal information
Full nameTan Kheng Siong
Nationality Singapore
Born (1974-11-04) 4 November 1974 (age 50)
Singapore, Singapore
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sailing career
ClassDinghy
ClubSingapore Armed Forces

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Stanley Tan (Tan Kheng Siong, born November 4, 1974 in Singapore[1]) is a retired Singaporean sailor, who specialized in the Laser class, and was Singapore's third double-Olympic sailor.[2] He represented his nation Singapore in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004).[3]

Career

Before qualifying for his first Olympics in 2000, he had already won three Southeast Asian Games silver medals.[1]

Tan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed close to last (thirty-eighth) in the Laser class with a net grade of 275, finishing closer behind Malta's Mario Aquilina by a three-point deficit.[4][5]

At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tan qualified for his second Singaporean team, as a 29-year-old, in the Laser class by placing again, close to last, at seventy-seventh and obtaining a berth from the World Championships in Bodrum, Turkey. Unlike his previous Olympics, Tan posted a net grade of 322 points to upgrade his position to thirty-seventh in a fleet of forty-two sailors.[6]

References

  1. ^ a b "Stanley Tan". Singapore National Olympic Council. Retrieved 5 September 2019.
  2. ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Stanley Tan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  3. ^ Dibb, Colin (23 July 2002). "Stanley Tan's Asian Games campaign update". Western Australia Laser Association. Archived from the original on 21 August 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  4. ^ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  5. ^ Chettiar, Kamalarajan (1 April 2001). "Legal Practice and Laser Sailing". Singapore Law Gazette. Archived from the original on 1 January 2006. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  6. ^ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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