Stanley Tan


Stanley Tan is a retired Singaporean sailor, who specialized in the Laser class, and was Singapore's third double-Olympic sailor. He represented his nation Singapore in two editions of the Olympic Games.

Career

Before qualifying for his first Olympics in 2000, he had already won three Southeast Asian Games silver medals.
Tan made his official debut at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, where he placed close to last in the Laser class with a net grade of 275, finishing closer behind Malta's Mario Aquilina by a three-point deficit.
At the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens, Tan qualified for his second Singaporean team, as a 29-year-old, in the Laser class by placing again, close to last, at seventy-seventh and obtaining a berth from the World Championships in Bodrum, Turkey. Unlike his previous Olympics, Tan posted a net grade of 322 points to upgrade his position to thirty-seventh in a fleet of forty-two sailors.