Olympians and Paralympians honoured in Parliament

Minister for Culture, Community and Youth Edwin Tong on Oct 16 moved a motion in Parliament to honour Team Singapore athletes who competed at the 2024 Paris Olympic and Paralympic Games.

The Republic was represented by a 23-strong contingent at the July 26-Aug 11 Olympics, with Maximilian Maeder winning a historic kitefoiling medal. The 18-year-old's bronze was just Singapore's sixth medal at the quadrennial Games.

More history was made at the Aug 28-Sept 8 Paralympics, where 10 Singaporean athletes featured and achieved the country's best showing of two gold medals and a silver.

Swimmer Yip Pin Xiu retained her 50m and 100m backstroke S2 titles to bring her total gold medal haul at the Games to seven, while Jeralyn Tan won a historic silver medal in boccia.

In 2016, Joseph Schooling received a standing ovation in Parliament after winning the 100m butterfly title in Rio de Janeiro for the country's first Olympic gold medal.

A 13-strong Paralympic contingent, which included Yip, were also honoured in Parliament later that year.