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Name First World-Level Weightlifting Medal
Category Sports - Weightlifting
Data Info The first international medal by a Singaporean was won when weightlifter Thong Saw Park won a silver medal in the lightweight category at the British Empire Games in 1950. He was the highest-ranked Singaporean weightlifter then and was ranked tenth in the world in the lightweight category prior to the 1952 Helsinki Olympics, in which he participated. Thong later went on to gain his doctorate from Queen’s University at Belfast and was Head of the Physics Department in the University of Malaya.
 
 
     
 
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