Singapore’s Yip Pin Xiu won gold in the women’s 100m backstroke S2 event on Friday (Aug 30). (Photo: SportSG/Eng Chin An)
SINGAPORE: The pressure to make history weighed a little heavier than usual for Yip Pin Xiu ahead of the Paris Paralympics, but as she always has, the 32-year-old delivered.
At the La Defense Arena on Friday (Aug 30), Yip won gold in the women’s 100m backstroke S2 final, notching a remarkable three-peat..
The defending champion clocked a time of 2:21.73 to clinch Singapore’s first medal of the Paris Games. She finished just ahead of Mexico’s silver medalist Haidee Aceves (2:21.79) and Italy’s Angela Procida (2:24.48), who took bronze.
Yip, 32, won gold in the event at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics.
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At the La Defense Arena on Friday (Aug 30), Yip won gold in the women’s 100m backstroke S2 final, notching a remarkable three-peat..
The defending champion clocked a time of 2:21.73 to clinch Singapore’s first medal of the Paris Games. She finished just ahead of Mexico’s silver medalist Haidee Aceves (2:21.79) and Italy’s Angela Procida (2:24.48), who took bronze.
Yip, 32, won gold in the event at the 2016 and 2020 Paralympics.
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