Laurentia Tan

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Full Name	Laurentia Tan
Occupation	Equestrian
Date Of Birth	Apr 24, 1979(1979-04-24)
Age	45
Country	Singapore
Horoscope	Aries

Laurentia Tan Biography

Laurentia Tan is one of the most popular and richest Equestrian who was born on April 24, 1979 in Singapore. Laurentia Tan was born on the 24th April 1979 , in Singapore. Her family moved to London at three years old because of her father’s job. Tan suffered from cerebral palsy as well as profound hearing loss after birth and her parents were informed by doctors that she might not be capable of walking. The family decided to move within the United Kingdom as they felt they would be able to achieve her full potential thanks to access to medical services and education available in the UK. While she was at the school system, she fell often and suffered a variety of tiny injuries to her classmates that the teachers and school nurse fondly referred to her as “Trouble”. When she was five, she was not able to walk and sit comfortably and began riding horses with the Diamond Centre for Disabled Riders in London to practice physical therapy. The activity also improved her self-confidence and confidence.

Tan was awarded his Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Medal) by the President of Singapore in a ceremony held in the Istana Singapore on the 20th of September 2008. In a dinner of appreciation on November 21, 2008 The Singapore National Paralympic Committee (SNPC) announced it would be expanding the cash awards it offers as part of the Athlete Achievement Award scheme for Paralympic Games medallists in individual and team events, with a quarter of which will be given to the SNPC for the development of the best athletes in sports and. This meant that for Tan’s Paralympic success, Tan received a cash prize of S$37,500, with the majority of which went towards the SNPC. Tan was included in Today newspaper’s list for the top athletes of 2008 with a ranking of eighth, and also shared with the Her World Young Woman Achiever award for 2008 with Paralympic athlete Yip pin Xiu.

In March 2007, the Riding for the Disabled Association Singapore (RDA) invited Tan to join the Singapore team for the World Para Dressage Championships at Hartpury College in Hartpury, Gloucester, in England in July that year. At this event, her first international competition, she did well enough to qualify for the 2008 Paralympic Games. In September 2008, at the Hong Kong Olympic Equestrian Centre at Sha Tin, she achieved bronze medals in the Individual Championship and Individual Freestyle Tests (class Ia). These were Singapore’s first Paralympic medals and Asia’s first equestrian medals at the Paralympic Games. Tan was conferred the Pingat Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Medal) by the President of Singapore at a ceremony at the Istana Singapore on 20 September 2008.

On 2 September 2012, Tan won Singapore’s first medal at the 2012 Summer Paralympics, a bronze in the dressage Individual Championship Test (class Ia). Riding on Ruben James 2, a gelding from Germany she had only known for ten months, she scored 73.650 percentage points. Two days later, on 4 September, she scored 79.000 in the Individual Freestyle Test (class Ia) which brought her a silver medal. Her wins brought her prizes of $50,000 (for her bronze medal) and $100,000 (silver) from the SNPC’s Athletes Achievement Awards scheme, again leading to comments about the stark difference between the cash prizes that Olympic and Paralympic medallists receive. Twenty per cent of the prize money will be paid to the Singapore National Paralympic Council for training and development. For her achievements, Tan won The Straits Times newspaper’s Star of the Month for September, and was conferred a Bintang Bakti Masyarakat (Public Service Star) by the President on 11 November 2012.

Tan has completed her A-levels at Tan completed her A-levels at Mary Hare Grammar School, an exclusive residential school for deaf students, where she was prefect. Tan also won the Elizabeth Dyson Award for advancement and accomplishment, as well as an award in business study. At the age of 18 she stopped the sport of horseback riding for eight years in order to complete an honors degree in tourism and hospitality management from Oxford Brookes University, and to pursue a position in the field of mental health specialist. However, she had a hard time with the sport, and picked the sport back in 2005. Tan stated, “For me, riding a horse gives me the freedom, movement and energy that my own legs cannot do.”

Laurentia Tan Net Worth

Laurentia Tan is one of the richest Equestrian from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Laurentia Tan 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Laurentia Tan Yan Yi BBM (/l a’r an S @/lo-REN sh@ Chinese: Chen Yan Yi pinyin: Chen Yanyi , pronounced [ts@n jen i] born on April 24, 1979) is a Kingdom-based Singaporean para-equestrian competition. Tan suffered from cerebral palsy as well as profound deafness following her birth, and then moved from Singapore to United Kingdom with her parents at age three. She started horse riding at the age of five as an exercise for physical therapy. After that, she completed her A-levels at Mary Hare Grammar School, an institution of residential special education for deaf students, and earned an honours diploma at Oxford Brookes University in hospitality management and tourism.

Tan started riding in October of 2005 in the Diamond Centre for Disabled Riders in which she was introduced to her trainer Heather “Penny” Pegrum. She was encouraged to compete in dressage events in April 2006, Tan advanced towards her first Riding for the Disabled Association (RDA) Nationals that year. On March 7, 2007 RDA Singapore contacted Tan and invited Tan to be part of in the Singapore Team to compete in the World Para Dressage Championships 2007 that was a qualifying event to the 2008 Summer Paralympics. The competition, Tan’s very her first competition in the international arena, took place in Hartpury College, Gloucester, in England in July 2007. Tan scored at least 63% in both the Individual and Team Tests, which allowed for selection to in the 2007 Summer Paralympics. On the Freestyle to Music Test, despite her deafness she came in fourth out of 18 competitors with the highest score of 67.94 percent. The month of October 2007 was when Tan was in Singapore for a trip and trained every day in Singapore’s RDA with a volunteer instructor Sally Drummond. Tan quit her position in June 2008 to work full-time under their trainer Penny Pegrum and physiotherapist Anthea Pell.

Tan’s win sparked discussion about the recognition given to Paralympians in Singapore. A correspondent to the Straits Times criticized the fact that the newspaper had not elaborated on Tan’s performance or what was involved in the event, but had “focused almost primarily on her disability”. Another letter writer to my paper expressed disappointment that less publicity had been given to Tan’s achievement compared to the silver medals won by the Singapore women’s table tennis team at the 2008 Summer Olympics. In addition, a Today reader noted that Tan would be receiving S$25,000 for her bronze medal, a tenth of the S$250,000 that table tennis players Feng Tianwei, Li Jiawei and Wang Yuegu received for their silver medals. He felt that she should receive even more than them, given what she had achieved in spite of her disabilities. The President of the Society for the Physically Disabled, Ms Chia Yong Yong, commented that the disparity between the cash awards given to able-bodied and disabled sportspeople was “disconcerting” and looked forward to a single common scheme, because:

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Facts & Trivia

Laurentia Ranked on the list of most popular Equestrian. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. Laurentia Tan celebrates birthday on April 24 of every year.

How does Laurentia Tan communicate?

With my profound deafness, I cannot hear on the phone but technology means I can communicate via various videophone apps, emails and messages. The Alltech FEI World Equestrian Games 2014 take place from the 23 August – 7 September.

Is Laurentia Tan deaf?

Singapore’s Laurentia Tan is profoundly deaf. But she does not use that as an excuse from bettering her silver medal from London 2012 in the freestyle test, which is the only test of the three equestrian dressage events performed to music.