AYG News Flash: Heartbreak for Shooting girls and Bowling boys
SAFRA Yishun and Orchid Country Club, Wednesday, July 1, 2009 – Singapore shooter Jodie Tan finished 5th in the Asian Youth Games (AYG) 10m Air Rifle girls’ final, while bowlers Justin Lim and Basil Low finished 8th and 15th respectively in the boys’ singles bowling event.
17-year-old Jodie Tan of Republic Polytechnic had finished 3rd behind India’s Paul Ayonika and China’s Zhong Chunchan in the qualification relays in the morning with a score of 395.
The republic’s other representative, Goh Jia Yi of Raffles Girls School, bowed out in the qualification shoot off for the 8th place against Thiranuwattanakul Donyapan of Thailand.
It was heartbreak for the 15-year-old Jia Yi, who had missed out on making a final’s appearance by a mere whisker of 0.1.
Zhong Chunchan eventually went on to bag the first shooting gold in the final with a score of 499.5, while Jodie’s score of 496.3 kept her out of the podium and placed her 5th of the 8 finalists.
Republic of Korea’s Go Dowon took the silver with a score of 498.6 and Kuwait’s Hessah Alzayed took the final podium spot with a score of 497.8.
At the Orchid Country Club just down the road from the AYG shooting venue, SAFRA Yishun, the bowling boys too were struggling to make their mark on home turf.
Singapore’s best result came from Raffles Institution’s 17-year-old Justin Lim Chun Liang, who bowled an average score of 215.5 in 6 games, which placed him in the 8th position.
Team mate Basil Low Eng Howe of the Singapore Sports School could only managed an average score of 205.5 to put him in 15th place of the 59 bowlers competing.
Hong Kong’s Michael Mak Cheuk Yin took top spot with an average score of 232.7, while Republic of Korea swept the silver and bronze through Park Ji-soo (230.2) and Hwang Dong-jun (224.2).
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Han
I agree Junwei… To me, the spirit of sports is not just about winning… And it’s not easy to list down 10 moments.
All the young athletes have done well and I hope Singaporeans will support them.
My kids and I watched the match played by Isabelle and it was a great game! Her fighting spirit is something which I admire!
WW
Les,
Thanks for the explanation. No doubt that Red Sports had better coverage than The Straits Times and New Paper. Keep up the good work.
Les
@WW: Thanks, WW. : )
Les
@WW.
Thanks for your comment.
There are two issues which you have raised – coverage of athletics and great moments.
For coverage of athletics, please see this post: http://redsports.sg/2009/07/12/ayg-stories-crew/
It will show that the Red Sports gave quite a bit of coverage for athletics.
As for great moments, the list above is a personal opinion of the writers.
Readers will obviously have their own highlight moments and we welcome them to list their own.
I doubt there will be a list of top 10 that everyone will agree with.
WW
What happen to the coverage of Athletics? No great moment? If you were at the stadium watching medal winning events i.e. Boy 100m, Girl 100 hurdles etc, your heart would be poping. 3 highlights for Swimming and 0 for Athletics.
njngk
yea where’s shahrir?
Les
@ice – we agree about your point with regards to the coverage for football. Hence this article:
http://redsports.sg/2009/07/10/basketball-football-ayg/
But not sure why this list is “funny”. It highlights a moment of individual football brilliance. The other 9 highlights have nothing to do with football.
Also, the REDcrew have written a total of 64 stories on the AYG covering the different sports that Singapore athletes have been involved in.
You can take a quick browse of the AYG stories we wrote to confirm it. It’s not just about football.
http://redsports.sg/category/asian-youth-games/
jan
Thanks Kar Teck, Jun Wei. : )
I guess from a post like this, it reveals to us whether sports readers in Singapore have matured in their perception of “sports”.
We asked, “Were they a moment for you too?” – clearly this post is not about imposing/asserting our views but just a sharing. : )
Sporting moments are fundamentally an exemplification of the ‘soul’ of a sport, a team, an individual – what stays on after the hype wears off.
Lynette may have broken her own 400m record and got a gold and swam a beautiful victory – but for her, a freestyle specialist, to brave the outrageous butterfly leg in the 4×100 medley relay and win the bronze, that is a moment I know I will remember Lynette for.
Hanafi was singled out precisely because despite the disappointment of the football team, but when Hanafi found the net – I will not deny that for a moment I thought Singapore might win. And if that thought hit you, too, then that was already a moment for you.
Victories are temporal, moments are eternal – thank you. : )
Kar-teck Yeo
@marissab @Emmanuel @ice
I truly believe this list is entirely the opinion of the writer.
Agree with @junwei – instead of keep on asking who is not on this list, why don’t everyone who has a better opinion list their own top 10 moments? Trust me it’s not easy.
junwei
This post is about the Singapore moments for us. It need not necessarily have to be a moment where a medal was won. If that is the case then basketball should not be up there. But do the fans think that they have not fought hard and deserved credit?
Yes the Singapore football team might not have delivered but certainly seeing them score against a mightier Iran was definitely a moment for us. Watching Isabelle lose out to her North Korean opponent in that close 7-set match was definitely a memorable moment, and seeing her on the brink of tears was definitely a Singapore moment for me though she might not have won a medal. The fighting spirit and emotion put in was definitely one she can be proud of.
So @marrissab, why not you put up your 10 Singapore moments. If all you care about are the gold medal winners then you are not showing respect to the other athletes who have put in their all and unfortunately lost out on a medal.
ice
What a funny list. I do not understand why football is always praised to the skies. Crash out in the group stages? Get full coverage in the papers. Win only a SEA Games bronze? Full coverage in the papers. People have to realise our footballers do not deliver, on any stages, regional or international. When you give football so much attention, have you ever thought of our athletes in other sports who work equally hard and actually have results to show for it? Yet they always get one-liner mention in the papers while football hog the limelight.
You can argue that the footballers train hard. But ALL our athletes train hard, yet somehow they dont get the attention they deserve
Emmanuel
Where is Shahrir?
hyn
Isabelle showed great sportsmanship and perseverance in her game with the Korean and she deserves to be recognized for she has brought out the spirit of sports. the paddlers have been training extremely hard for the AYG and YOG. So they deserve due recognition for their efforts and perseverance. Please show respect for their efforts:D
marissab
You have all the gold medallists’ moments up there, except Lynette Lim’s 400 free win? Come on, show some respect. Football and table tennis for their complete lack of results somehow get on this list, but a gold medallist isnt.
123
isabelle rocks la!