Savannah Siew
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| Birth name | Siew Kiah Hui | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 18 June 1996 Singapore | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Siew Kiah Hui (born 18 June 1996), known as Savannah Siew, is a Singaporean sailor.
As the daughter of former national sailor, Siew Shaw Her, Siew followed in her father's footsteps and started learning sailing at the age of 7.[1]
Siew tasted her first success in 2012 at the 420 World Championships, winning gold medals at both the U16 and U18 categories. However, she missed getting a medal at the Open category, coming in at 4th.
In 2013, Siew won a silver medal in both the Open category and U18 category at the 420 World Championships.[2] She won the silver medal again in the Open category and the gold medal in the U18 category in 2014.
Siew went on to win the gold medal in the 420 class at the 2013 Southeast Asian Games held at Myanmar.[3]
Siew's success continued at the Incheon Asian Games 2014 where she won a gold medal on the 420 class with Kimberly Lim. However, after the 2014 Asian Games, Siew separated from her sailing crew, Lim, and changed to the 470 class while Lim to the 49er FX.[4]
Siew subsequently competed in the 470 class in the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[1] She came in third during the competition but was not awarded the bronze medal as there were only three teams for the race.[5]
References
[edit]- ^ a b David Lee (17 May 2015). "Sailor Savannah following in dad Shaw Her's footsteps". The New Paper. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ "Sailing: Kimberly and Savannah win silver for S'pore at 420 World Championships". The Straits Times. 31 July 2013. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ May Chen (20 December 2013). "SEA Games: Singapore sailors bag five golds, two silvers and five bronzes in Myanmar". The Straits Times. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ Chua Siang Yee (30 September 2014). "Win-lose, all in the family". AsiaOne. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
- ^ Ho Si Rui (13 June 2015). "Choy and Yeo bag 470 men's sailing gold for Singapore". The Straits Times. Retrieved 6 July 2018.
External links
[edit]- 1996 births
- Living people
- Singaporean female sailors (sport)
- Asian Games medalists in sailing
- Sailors at the 2014 Asian Games
- Medalists at the 2014 Asian Games
- Asian Games gold medalists for Singapore
- SEA Games gold medalists for Singapore
- SEA Games medalists in sailing
- Competitors at the 2015 SEA Games
- 21st-century Singaporean sportswomen