Avvir Tham

The Games debutant won a silver in the men's 1m individual springboard, finishing behind Malaysia's Ooi Tze Liang. . Read more at straitstimes.com.

In the women’s 3m synchronised springboard, Ashlee Tan and Fong Kay Yian finished third with 229.41 points. “(Chan and Lim’s Olympic debuts) give a sense of hope to divers, just like how Joseph Schooling won (at Rio 2016), it gives hope that Singapore athletes can make it and can compete on the world stage with other top-class athletes.” I won’t let this medal change or affect anything. Watching the twins compete at the SEA Games and winning multiple medals both individually and as a pair also inspired Tham to follow in their footsteps. “That’s something they taught me. Tham, who first took up diving aged seven, had entered the Singapore Swimming Association’s talent identification development squad aged 10 and joined the national development squad at 14, when he got to train with the Lee twins.