Regarded as one of Singapore’s best paddlers of his time, naturalised player Gao Ning won three gold medals in the men’s team event.
SINGAPORE — It was a historic win for the Singapore table tennis team as an all local-born squad won the gold medal, seeing off the challenge from arch-rivals Malaysia 3-0 in the men’s team event at the Morodok Techo Table Tennis Hall. They last won the medal when Singapore hosted the SEA Games in 2015. The following SEA Games in 2017, Singapore won silver, and there was no team event in 2019. In the previous SEA Games held last year in Vietnam, Singapore settled for joint bronze with Vietnam.
He last played in the 2017 SEA Games, and he won two gold medals and a silver medal in the men’s team event. During his time there were plenty of other China-born players that switched allegiance to Singapore and won medals for the country. One definitely can’t forget Feng Tianwei, Yu Meng Yu and many others. Although Gao Ning has since retired, he is currently the Singapore national men’s team coach.
Singapore had a perfect start to the competition in Group B against Malaysia, Philippines and Laos. Although it wasn’t all an easy match against their opponents especially the Philippines and Malaysia, the Singapore paddlers managed to win all their round robin matches with a 3-0 win.
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