Yip Pin Xiu

Yip Pin Xiu
PJG PLY

Yip as the flag bearer for Singapore at the 2016 Summer Paralympics Parade of Nations
Personal information
Full name	Yip Pin Xiu
Nationality	Singaporean
Born	(1992-01-10) 10 January 1992 (age 32) Singapore
Sport
Sport	Swimming
Strokes	Backstroke Freestyle
Classifications	S2
Coach	Mark Chay
Medal record Swimming Representing  Singapore Event 1st 2nd 3rd Paralympics 5 1 0 World Championships 4 2 0 Asian Para Games 1 0 2 Total 10 3 2 Paralympic Games 2008 Beijing 50 m backstroke S3 2016 Rio 50 m backstroke S2 2016 Rio 100 m backstroke S2 2020 Tokyo 50 m backstroke S2 2020 Tokyo 100 m backstroke S2 2008 Beijing 50 m freestyle S3 World Championships 2010 Eindhoven 50 m freestyle S3 2022 Madeira 100 m backstroke S2 2022 Madeira 50 m backstroke S2 2023 Manchester 50 m backstroke S2 2010 Eindhoven 50 m backstroke S3 2013 Montreal 50 m backstroke S3 Asian Para Games 2018 Jakarta 50 m backstroke S4 2018 Jakarta 50 m freestyle S4 2018 Jakarta 100 m freestyle S4

Yip Pin Xiu PJG PLY (Chinese: 叶品秀; pinyin: Yè Pǐnxìu; born 10 January 1992)^[1][2] is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer.^[3] She is a five-time Paralympic gold medallist and 5 time World Champion, with two world records in the 50 m backstroke S2 and the 100 m backstroke S2. Yip is Singapore's most decorated Paralympian.

Most recently during the Para Swimming World Series Australia 2023, Yip clinched the gold medal in the Women's 100m backstroke multi-class event. She later also bagged her second gold medal in the Women's 50m backstroke on the final day of the competition.^[4]

She has Charcot-Marie-Tooth syndrome and competes in the S2 category for the physically impaired. Since 2005, she has won medals in international competitions such as the World Wheelchair and Amputee Games, Japan Paralympic Swimming Championships and International German Paralympic Swimming Championships. At the 2008 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 50 metres backstroke and a silver medal in the 50 metres freestyle, setting world records in both events. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 100 metres S2 backstroke, setting a world record for that event, and another for her 50 m split.

In 2009, she was named "Young Woman Achiever of the Year" by local magazine Her World.^[5] In honour of her feats at the Paralympic Games, she was conferred the Pingat Jasa Gemilang (Meritorious Service Medal) during the National Day Awards ceremony in 2016. More recently, Yip was crowned Sportswoman of the Year (swimming) at the Singapore Disability Sports Awards 2022. This was her third time earning this honour, having won the same award in 2019 and 2021.^[6] Her achievements have contributed to the widespread recognition of disabled athletes in the Singaporean public sphere.