SEA Games 2025 recap
Whether you’re a sports fan or not, you probably would’ve seen the influx of SEA Games 2025 content on social media over the last 2 weeks – and ICYMI, the gruelling 12-day event has just come to a close in Thailand, with Singapore snagging a 5th place ranking overall.
From proud wins to athletes who’ve gone viral online, here’s a recap of Team Singapore’s achievements at the SEA Games 2025.
Best Singapore wins
Image credit: Eugene Goh Wei Hao/SNOC
This year, Singapore scored a total of 202 medals, comprising 52 golds, 61 silvers, and 89 bronzes. Our biggest wins were in swimming – with 19 golds – followed by fencing, where Team SG took home a record haul of 8 gold medals.
Here’s a breakdown of all our wins:
| Sport | Gold | Silver | Bronze | Total |
| Archery | 1 | 2 | 0 | 3 |
| Artistic Swimming (Aquatics) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Athletics | 3 | 3 | 3 | 9 |
| Badminton | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Baseball and Softball | 0 | 2 | 0 | 2 |
| Basketball | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Billiards | 1 | 1 | 3 | 5 |
| Bowling | 2 | 0 | 4 | 6 |
| Boxing | 0 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| Canoeing | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Chess | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Cricket | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Cycling | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Diving (Aquatics) | 1 | 2 | 1 | 4 |
| Equestrian | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Extreme Sports | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Fencing | 8 | 3 | 2 | 13 |
| Floorball | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Golf | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Gymnastics | 0 | 4 | 1 | 5 |
| Handball | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Hockey | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Ice hockey | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Ice skating | 0 | 2 | 2 | 4 |
| Judo | 0 | 0 | 3 | 3 |
| Ju-jitsu | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Kabaddi | 0 | 0 | 6 | 6 |
| Karate | 1 | 0 | 1 | 2 |
| Kickboxing | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| Muaythai | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| Netball | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| Open Water Swimming (Aquatics) | 0 | 2 | 1 | 3 |
| Pencak silat | 1 | 2 | 2 | 5 |
| Rugby sevens | 0 | 1 | 1 | 2 |
| Sailing | 4 | 4 | 2 | 10 |
| Shooting | 2 | 2 | 4 | 8 |
| Squash | 0 | 0 | 4 | 4 |
| Swimming (Aquatics) | 19 | 8 | 7 | 34 |
| Table Tennis | 4 | 1 | 2 | 7 |
| Taekwondo | 1 | 1 | 2 | 4 |
| Triathlon | 0 | 3 | 4 | 7 |
| Water Polo (Aquatics) | 1 | 1 | 0 | 2 |
| Woodball | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Wrestling | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 |
| Wushu | 0 | 2 | 4 | 6 |
| Total | 52 | 61 | 89 | 202 |
Notable Team Singapore players at SEA Games 2025
We can’t discuss the SEA Games without mentioning this year’s star players. FYI, the games saw Team Singapore’s largest contingent of athletes thus far, with 926 athletes competing in 48 sports. In total, the team set 12 game records and 11 national records over the course of the competition. Here are some highlights:
1. Letitia Sim – Swimming (Aquatics)
Image adapted from: Andy Chua/SportSG
22-year-old National Swimmer Letitia Sim was undoubtedly one of the biggest winners at the SEA Games 2025. Crowned “Southeast Asia’s breaststroke queen”, the athlete scored 5 gold medals across her races, all while setting multiple game records. This includes being the first-ever swimmer to complete the SEA Games hat-trick in her stroke.
2. Mikkel Lee – Swimming (Aquatics)
Image adapted from: Andy Chua/SportSG
Another stand-out swimmer was 23-year-old Mikkel Lee, who clinched 4 gold medals at the games. Of the 4, 2 were individual medals in men’s 50m and 100m freestyle, where Mikkel came in first place with personal best timings of 21.92 seconds and 48.65 seconds respectively.
3. Julia Yeo – Swimming (Aquatics)
From left to right: Quah Ting Wen, Quah Jing Wen, Letitia Sim, Julia Yeo
Image adapted from: Andy Chua/SportSG
By now, you’ve probably seen videos of 14-year-old swimmer Julia Yeo all over social media. The young National Swimmer performed the amazing feat of securing a gold medal with her teammates at the 4x100m medley relay, where they finished with a record timing of 4 minutes 05.79 seconds.
What’s even more impressive is that Julia was a last-minute sub-in for her injured teammate, Levenia Sim, and never expected to have to compete in the games – so much so that she hadn’t even come prepared with a swimsuit.
4. Shanti Pereira – Track and field (Athletics)
Image adapted from: Kelly Wong/SNOC, Jeremy Lee/SportSG
Most of us are familiar with 29-year-old “Sprint Queen” Shanti Pereira, who’s already broken multiple records throughout her career, including being Singapore’s first Asian Games athletics champion since 1974.
At the SEA Games 2025, the athlete once again reigned victorious, defending her title in the 100m and 200m races with impressive finishing times of 11.36 seconds and 23.05 seconds respectively. With her medal haul this year, Shanti is also officially the first Singaporean to win these titles back-to-back in both 2025 and 2023.
5. Calvin Quek – Men’s 400m hurdles (Athletics)
Image credit: Eugene Goh Wei Hao/SNOC
Another sprinter to look out for is 29-year-old Calvin Quek, who snagged Singapore’s first gold in men’s 400m hurdles since 1965. The athlete won his medal with a record time of 50.27 seconds. He later helped his team secure a bronze in the 4x400m relay, where he surpassed Philippines’ Labita Alhryan to finish the race in third place.
6. Avvir Tham – Diving (Aquatics)
Image adapted from: Lim Weixiang/SNOC
If you’re chronically online, Avvir Tham is a name you might’ve noticed popping up on your feed. The 21-year-old secured an important win for Singapore, scoring SG’s first gold medal for men’s diving in 60 years. But aside from his big achievement, Avvir’s also making waves for his good looks – some even say he resembles Suho from K-pop group EXO.
Let’s continue supporting our Team Singapore athletes till the next SEA Games
Whether you kept up with the SEA Games 2025 as it was happening, or are just catching up on it now, we Singaporeans are definitely proud of our Team Singapore athletes for their impressive achievements this year. BTW, the 34th SEA Games will be taking place in Malaysia in 2027, so we’ll just have to keep our eyes peeled till then.
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Cover image adapted from: Andy Chua/SportSG, avvir_tham