{"id":20766,"date":"2025-12-17T17:13:42","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:13:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=20766"},"modified":"2025-12-17T17:13:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:13:42","slug":"avvir-tham-becomes-first-singaporean-man-to-win-sea-games-diving-gold-in-60-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/?p=20766","title":{"rendered":"Avvir Tham becomes first Singaporean man to win SEA Games diving gold in 60 years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>BANGKOK: Avvir Tham became Singapore&#8217;s first men&#8217;s diver to win SEA Games gold in six decades on Wednesday (Dec 17).<\/p>\n<p>In the men&#8217;s 1m springboard final at the <span>Assumption University Suvarnabhumi Campus&#8217; Aquatic Center, Tham registered a personal best score of 370.35, ahead of Thailand&#8217;s Chawanwat Juntaphadawon and Malaysia&#8217;s Rui Jie Yong.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Tham clinched silver in the same event at the 2022 Games.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>The last Singaporean win to win gold was Hui Peng Seng at the 1965 Games, then known as the South East Asian Peninsular (<\/span>SEAP<span>) Games.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Tham&#8217;s compatriot Max Lee finished fourth, with a personal best score of 319.35.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/sport\/avvir-tham-diving-gold-sea-games-team-singapore-5623221\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Full Article At Source <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BANGKOK: Avvir Tham became Singapore&#8217;s first men&#8217;s diver to win SEA Games gold in six decades on Wednesday (Dec 17). In the men&#8217;s 1m springboard&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--bsbD5DUX--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2025\/12\/17\/202512167_diving_snoc-lim-weixiang-3.jpg?itok=kC-5iU23","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[13384,11706,321,6999,140,4483,1293,13385,1025,59],"class_list":["post-20766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-buzz-news-sg-global","tag-avvir","tag-diving","tag-games","tag-gold","tag-man","tag-sea","tag-singaporean","tag-tham","tag-win","tag-years","wpcat-2-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/20767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sgbuzz.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}