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| Full name | Yip Pin Xiu | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 10 January 1992 Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Sport | Swimming | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Strokes | Backstroke Freestyle | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Classifications | S2 | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Mark Chay | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Yip Pin Xiu[a] PJG PLY (born 10 January 1992) is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer.[1][2] She is a six-time Paralympic gold medalist and four-time World Champion, with two world records in the 50 m backstroke S2 and the 100 m backstroke S2. Yip is Singapore's most decorated Paralympian and Southeast Asia's most decorated swimming Paralympian.
She has Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and competes in the S2 category for the physically impaired. Since 2005, she has won medals in international competitions such as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, Japan Paralympic Swimming Championships and International German Paralympic Swimming Championships. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 50 metres backstroke and a silver medal in the 50 metres freestyle, setting world records in both events. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 100 metres S2 backstroke, setting a world record for that event, and another for her 50 m split. She successfully retained her gold medals for these two events in 2020 and 2024 in a historic three-peat.[3]
In 2009, she was named "Young Woman Achiever of the Year" by local magazine Her World.[4] In honour of her feats at the Paralympic Games, she was conferred the Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal) during the National Day Awards ceremony in 2016. More recently, Yip was crowned Sportswoman of the Year (swimming) at the Singapore Disability Sports Awards 2022. This was her third time earning this honour, having won the same award in 2019 and 2021.[5] Her achievements have contributed to the widespread recognition of disabled athletes in the Singaporean public sphere.
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- ^ "Athlete Biography Yip Pin Xiu". The Beijing Organizing Committee for the Games of the XXIX Olympiad. Archived from the original on 13 November 2008.
- ^ "YIP Pin Xiu – Biography". paralympic.org. Archived from the original on 1 February 2014. Retrieved 16 August 2013.
- ^ Mohan, Matthew (30 August 2024). "'It's been phenomenal': Singapore's Yip Pin Xiu reflects on Paralympics gold, historic three-peat". CNA. Retrieved 31 August 2024.
- ^ "Her World Woman of the Year 2008". SPH. 6 March 2009. Archived from the original on 16 August 2016. Retrieved 29 December 2015.
- ^ Auto, Hermes (6 July 2022). "Para-sports: Swimmers Yip Pin Xiu, Toh Wei Soong claim top honours at S'pore Disability Sports Awards | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 28 February 2023.