SINGAPORE won its first Youth Olympic Games (YOG) silver last night at the Singapore Sports School, courtesy of Rainer Ng's second-place finish in the 50m backstroke final.
The 18-year-old Raffles Institution (Junior College) student started slow, but finished strongly to clock a time of 26.45sec, just 0.01 ahead of third-placed Abdullah Altuwaini of Kuwait.
Christian Homer of Trinidad and Tobago clinched gold comfortably in 26.36...more.
