Yip as the flag bearer for Singapore at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations
Personal information
Full name
Yip Pin Xiu
Nationality
Singaporean
Born
(1992-01-10) 10 January 1992 (age 32) Singapore
Sport
Sport
Swimming
Strokes
Backstroke Freestyle
Classifications
S2
Coach
Mark Chay
Medal record
Swimming
Representing Singapore
Event
1st
2nd
3rd
Paralympics
5
1
0
World Championships
4
2
0
Asian Para Games
1
0
2
Total
10
3
2
Paralympic Games
2008 Beijing
50 m backstroke S3
2016 Rio
50 m backstroke S2
2016 Rio
100 m backstroke S2
2020 Tokyo
50 m backstroke S2
2020 Tokyo
100 m backstroke S2
2008 Beijing
50 m freestyle S3
World Championships
2010 Eindhoven
50 m freestyle S3
2022 Madeira
100 m backstroke S2
2022 Madeira
50 m backstroke S2
2023 Manchester
50 m backstroke S2
2010 Eindhoven
50 m backstroke S3
2013 Montreal
50 m backstroke S3
Asian Para Games
2018 Jakarta
50 m backstroke S4
2018 Jakarta
50 m freestyle S4
2018 Jakarta
100 m freestyle S4
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yip.
Yip Pin XiuPJG PLY (Chinese: 叶品秀; pinyin: Yè Pǐnxìu; born 10 January 1992)[1][2] is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer.[3] She is a five-time Paralympic gold medallist and 5 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.
Most recently during the Para Swimming World Series Australia 2023, Yip clinched the gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke multi-class event. She later also bagged her second gold medal in the Women's 50m backstroke on the final day of the competition.[4]
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.
In 2009, she was named "Young Woman Achiever of the Year" by local magazine Her World.[5] 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.[6] Her achievements have contributed to the widespread recognition of disabled athletes in the Singaporean public sphere.
^"新加坡16岁小将叶品秀：理想决不萎缩 Archived 24 May 2011 at the Wayback Machine", People's Daily, 17 September 2008, retrieved 1 January 2009 (in Chinese).
^"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.
^cue (19 February 2023). "Swimming: S'pore finish Para World Series Australia with three golds, four bronzes | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 28 February 2023.
^"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.
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