President Tharman, PM Wong congratulate MMA fighter Tiffany Teo for winning historic Asian Games gold
Singapore's leaders have congratulated Team Singapore's mixed martial arts (MMA) fighter Tiffany Teo on winning the Republic's first gold medal at the 20th Asian Games in Aichi-Nagoya, Japan on Tuesday (Sept 22).The win is also historic given that MMA, along with BMX freestyle, padel, surfing and teqball, made their debut at the Asian Games this year."She and her husband, former teammate and coach, Sim Kai Xiong, earned victory through struggle," wrote President Tharman Shanmugaratnam in his social media post on Tuesday.President Tharman noted that Teo had gone through many years of training and sacrifice before making it to the games in Nagoya.She also had to overcome top competitors from Iran and India enroute to the finals, where she eventually defeated Uzbekistan's Khilola Sobirova, who had just won gold at the sport's Asian championship in May — beating Teo in the final.