Singapore at the 2026 Asian Games: The Schedule and Seven Athletes to Watch

Singapore’s 304 athletes are competing across 27 sports at the 2026 Asian Games in Japan. The team includes returning champions and Games debutants, but the seven athletes highlighted before competition began do not all have equally well-documented medal prospects. 78

When and where is Singapore competing?

The Games run from 19 September to 4 October 2026. Most events are in Aichi Prefecture, centred on Nagoya. Singapore’s swimmers and divers are competing in Tokyo, while its track cyclists are at the Izu Velodrome in Shizuoka. Nearly two-thirds of the Singapore contingent are making their Asian Games debut. 137

How did Singapore fare at the previous Asian Games?

Singapore won 16 medals, including three golds, at the Hangzhou Games in 2023. The gold medallists were sprinter Shanti Pereira, sailor Ryan Lo and kitefoiler Maximilian Maeder. Pereira also won silver in the women’s 100m. 81022

Seven Singapore athletes to watch

• Gan Ching Hwee — swimming: The distance-freestyle swimmer’s medal potential has become a result: by 27 September, she had won silver in the women’s 400m, 800m and 1,500m freestyle. 6
• Ryan Lo — sailing: Lo arrived as the defending men’s ILCA 7 champion after winning gold at Hangzhou. Another medal was a clear possibility, though a title defence was never assured. 1011
• Amanda Yap — artistic gymnastics: Yap won balance beam silver at the 2026 Commonwealth Games. In Japan, she competed in Singapore’s women’s team final, where the team finished eighth, and placed sixth in the balance beam final. Those results show why she drew attention without turning her pre-Games promise into an Asian Games medal. 51216
• Noah Lim — jiu-jitsu: Lim is among the seven athletes highlighted in the pre-Games watchlist. The supplied reporting does not substantiate a recent result, exact event or specific medal forecast for him. 8
• Shanti Pereira — athletics: The defending women’s 200m champion also won 100m silver at Hangzhou. She had won another 100m silver in Japan by 27 September, with her 200m title defence still in focus. 1622
• Shannon Tan — golf: Tan appears on the seven-athlete watchlist, but the supplied evidence does not establish a specific recent achievement, event or reliable medal assessment. 8
• Camille Spaccarotella — surfing: Spaccarotella is also on the watchlist. Her recent results, exact event and medal prospects cannot be verified from the supplied evidence. 8

The distinction matters: Gan’s three silvers and Pereira’s 100m silver are results already achieved, while a hoped-for medal in an event still to come remains a prospect. 616