Feng Tianwei becomes Singapore's most decorated athlete at Commonwealth Games as Birmingham 2022 wraps up

SINGAPORE: Team Singapore's Feng Tianwei has become the nation's most successful athlete at the Commonwealth Games with a total haul of 13 medals. 

Three of those were gold medals from this year's edition of the Games in Birmingham, where she helped Singapore complete a clean sweep in the women's team, singles and doubles events.

Feng's overall medal tally also makes her the most decorated table tennis player at the Games, said the Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) on Monday (Aug 8).

Her medal collection includes two golds and two silvers from Delhi in 2010, three golds from Glasgow in 2014, as well as one gold, one silver and one bronze from the 2018 Gold Coast Games.

She overtook former national table tennis player Li Jiawei's tally of 10 medals in the record books. 

Singapore's overall medal haul for the 2022 Games was 12, comprising four gold, four silver and four bronze from events in table tennis, badminton and swimming.

Singapore finished 14th out of 72 countries and territories in the overall medal tally.

Table tennis at this year's Games contributed seven medals, three of them gold. 

There were also two silvers and two bronzes. 

Singapore won gold in the women's team, singles and doubles events, with the silvers coming in the women's singles and men's team event.

The bronze medals were won by men's doubles and mixed doubles pairings.

Badminton contributed three medals, including one gold won by the husband-and-wife pair of Terry Hee and Jessica Tan. They beat the English duo of Marcus Ellis and Lauren Smith 21-16, 21-15 on Monday.

The win was Singapore's first Commonwealth Games gold in the mixed doubles event, and the country's first gold in badminton since 2002, when Li Li won the women's singles title.

Hee and Tan