Stanley Tan

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]

Stanley Tan
Personal information
Full nameTan Kheng Siong
Nationality Singapore
Born (1974-11-04) 4 November 1974
Singapore, Singapore
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Weight82 kg (181 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es)Dinghy
ClubSingapore Armed Forces
This is a Chinese name; the family name is Tan.

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. "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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