Stanley Tan

Stanley Tan
Personal information
Full name Stanley Tan Kheng Siong
Nationality  Singapore
Born (1974-11-04) 4 November 1974
Singapore, Singapore
Height 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight 82 kg (181 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
Club Singapore Armed Forces

Stanley Tan Kheng Siong (born November 4, 1974 in Singapore) is a retired Singaporean sailor, who specialized in the Laser class.[1] He represented his nation Singapore in two editions of the Olympic Games (2000 and 2004), and has also been training throughout most of his sporting career for the Singapore Armed Forces.[2]

Tan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed thirty-eighth in the Laser class with a net grade of 275, finishing closer behind Malta's Mario Aquilina by a three-point deficit.[3][4]

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 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.[5]

References

  1. "Stanley Tan". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Retrieved 13 November 2014.
  2. Dibb, Colin (23 July 2002). "Stanley Tan's Asian Games campaign update". Western Australia Laser Association. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  3. "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class" (PDF). Sydney 2000. LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 5 September 2013.
  4. Chettiar, Kamalarajan (1 April 2001). "Legal Practice and Laser Sailing". Singapore Law Gazette. Retrieved 12 November 2014.
  5. "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004. BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
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