One Team Singapore Celebratory Parade for Paris 2024 Paralympians along Orchard Road on Sept 14, 2024. ST PHOTO: AZMI ATHNI
SINGAPORE – Singapore’s para athletes who competed at the Aug 28-Sept 8 Paris Paralympics were taken on an open-top bus parade through the heart of the city on Sept 14.
The bus set off from the OCBC Aquatic Centre at around 11.30am before journeying through four “cheer points” that have been designated for the route: Chinatown (in front of People’s Park Complex), Orchard Road (along Orchard Road and Bideford Road junction), Serangoon Road (after Tekka Market and towards junction of Buffalo Road) and Victoria Street (mural wall at 8C Jalan Kledek) before it heads back to the Singapore Sports Hub.
All 10 of Team Singapore’s Paris Paralympians were on the bus. They are Yip Pin Xiu, Toh Wei Soong and Sophie Soon (para-swimming), Diroy Noordin (para-athletics), Daniel Chan (para-shooting), Laurentia Tan, Gemma Foo and Hilary Su (para-equestrian), Jeralyn Tan (boccia) and Nur Syahidah Alim (para-archery).
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The bus set off from the OCBC Aquatic Centre at around 11.30am before journeying through four “cheer points” that have been designated for the route: Chinatown (in front of People’s Park Complex), Orchard Road (along Orchard Road and Bideford Road junction), Serangoon Road (after Tekka Market and towards junction of Buffalo Road) and Victoria Street (mural wall at 8C Jalan Kledek) before it heads back to the Singapore Sports Hub.
All 10 of Team Singapore’s Paris Paralympians were on the bus. They are Yip Pin Xiu, Toh Wei Soong and Sophie Soon (para-swimming), Diroy Noordin (para-athletics), Daniel Chan (para-shooting), Laurentia Tan, Gemma Foo and Hilary Su (para-equestrian), Jeralyn Tan (boccia) and Nur Syahidah Alim (para-archery).
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