Effectively proving that she deserves as much (if not more) praise than Joseph Schooling, Yip Pin Xiu clinched the second gold medal for Singapore at the Paralympics in Rio de Janeiro.
Take that, indifferent corporate entities.
The 24-year-old swimmer clocked a time of 1 min 0.33 seconds in the 50m backstroke S2, beating China’s Feng Yazhu and Ukraine’s Iryna Sotska.
Yip’s win follows nearly a week after she scored the first gold of the Rio Paralympics last Saturday. Gold medal aside, she set a new world record for the 100m backstroke event last week with her split timing of 59.38s.
Way before that, Yip had also won gold eight years ago at her first Paralympics in Beijing. This was way before Joseph Schooling scored Singapore’s first Olympic Gold, mind you.
With this new achievement, Yip — who was born with muscular dystrophy — is effectively the first Singaporean athlete to ever win multiple gold medals at the same Paralympics. In other words, there better be a helluva celebration when she returns home.
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