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 nameYip Pin Xiu
Born (1992-01-10) 10 January 1992
Singapore
Sport
SportSwimming
StrokesBackstroke
Freestyle
ClassificationsS2
CoachMick Massey
Medal record
Swimming
Representing  Singapore
Event 1st 2nd 3rd
Paralympics 7 1 0
World Championships 8 3 0
Asian Para Games 1 0 2
Total 16 4 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
2024 Paris 50 m backstroke S2
2024 Paris 100 m backstroke S2
2008 Beijing 50 m freestyle S3
World Championships
2010 Eindhoven 50 m freestyle S3
2019 London 50 m backstroke S2
2019 London 100 m backstroke S2
2022 Madeira 50 m backstroke S2
2022 Madeira 100 m backstroke S2
2023 Manchester 50 m backstroke S2
2023 Manchester 100 m backstroke S2
2025 Singapore 50 m backstroke S2
2010 Eindhoven 50 m backstroke S3
2013 Montreal 50 m backstroke S3
2025 Singapore 100 m backstroke S2
Asian Para Games
2018 Jakarta 50 m backstroke S4
2018 Jakarta 50 m freestyle S4
2018 Jakarta 100 m freestyle S4
In this Chinese name, the family name is Yip.

Yip Pin Xiu PJG PLY (born 10 January 1992) is a Singaporean backstroke swimmer. She is a seven-time Paralympic gold medalist and seven-time World Champion, with two world records in the 50-metre and 100-metre backstrokes S2. Yip is Singapore's most decorated Paralympian and Southeast Asia's most decorated swimming Paralympian.

Yip 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 50m backstroke and a silver medal in the 50m freestyle, setting world records in both events. At the 2016 Summer Paralympics, she won a gold medal in the 100m S2 backstroke, setting a world record for that event, and another for her 50m split. She retained her gold medals for these two events in 2020 and 2024 in a historic three-peat.

In 2009, Yip was named "Young Woman Achiever of the Year" by local magazine Her World. 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. Her achievements have contributed to the widespread recognition of disabled athletes in the Singaporean public sphere.


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