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SINGAPORE: Singapore's chances of a YOG gold medal in sailing suffered a setback after a poor finish by Darren Choy in three races on Tuesday.
The 16-year-old world champion is Singapore's best hope at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).
Darren, who was the overall leader before Tuesday, finished 15th, 13th and 18th for races 9, 10 and 11.
This puts him in sixth place overall at 66 points, 25 points behind leader Ian Barrows of the US Virgin Islands.
The last race will be held on Wednesday.
In the Girls' Byte CII event, Natasha Yokoyama recovered from a 21st-place finish in race 9 to win race 10.
But she faltered in the next race to finish 12th.
Going into Wednesday's gold-medal race, she is now 5th overall with 63 points, with Austria's Lara Vadlau the clear leader with 23 points.
In the Girls' Techno 293 windsurfing race, Singapore's Audrey Yong is 5th with 40 points in the 18-strong field. She is now 22 points behind Thailand's Siripon Kaewduang-Ngam.
In boxing, Singapore's Muhammed Hanurdeen lost out on the bronze in the Boys' Light Fly 48kg category.
The 17-year-old fell 0-7 to Uzbekistan's Zohidjon Hoorboyev. Despite a difficult match, it was a special night for him.
Hanurdeen's mother Jarina Begum was at the match to support him, courtesy of tickets from Singapore's Sports Ministry.
She had to tend to her Tekka Hawker Centre rojak stall and was unable to attend any of Hanurdeen's previous bouts. But for Tuesday night, she got someone else to look after the business.
In the Boys' Fly Under-51kg bout, Egypt's Hesham Abdelaal beat Kandel Dowden of Grenada to take the bronze after Kandel was disqualified in round two.
In the Boys' Bantam Under-54kg bout, Poland's Dawid Michelus beat Zack Davies of Great Britain 12-7 for the bronze.
Venezuela's Fradimil Macayo beat Denislav Suslekov of Bulgaria 8-3 for the bronze in the Boys' Feather Under-57kg bout.
In the Boys' Light Under-60kg bronze-medal match, India's Krishan Vikas took bronze after his bout against Mexico's Daniel Echeverria. The Mexican was disqualified in round three for too many punches below the belt.
In the Boys' Light Welter Under-64kg bronze-medal bout, Argentina's Fabian Maidana took bronze in a walkover as Ukraine's Oleg Nekliudov was unable to compete.
And Turkmenistan's Nursahat Pazziyev beat Kyrgyzstan's Islomzhon Dalibaev 7-0 to take the bronze in the Boys' Welter Under-69kg bronze-medal bout.
In canoeing, Singapore's Wang Nan Feng was knocked out by Belgium's Hermien Peters in the Girls' K1 Canoe Slalom round three. Earlier in round one, she beat Aliaksandra Hryshyna of Belarus in a time of 1 minute 47.23 seconds to progress to round three.
In the Boys' K1 Canoe Slalom round three, Singapore's Brandon Ooi beat Iran's Ali Aghamirzaeijenaghrad in a time of 1 minute 35.80 seconds to progress to round four.
Amongst the last 8 in round four, Brandon will face off against France's Guillaume Bernis.
Earlier in round one, Brandon beat Boris Nedyalkov of Bulgaria with a time of 1 minute 35.24 seconds to progress to round three.
In the Modern Pentathlon Mixed Relay event, Ukraine's Anastasiya Spas paired up with Ilya Shugarov of Russia to take gold with 4,638 points.
The pair had won bronze and silver earlier at the games in their individual events.
Silver went to Zhu Wenjing of China and South Korea's Kim Dae Beom, with 4,600 points.
Brazil's Mariana Laporte and Slovakia's Jan Szalay grabbed the bronze.
Meanwhile, Singapore's Valerie Lim paired with Ukraine's Yuriy Fedechko. They were placed 7th with 4,460 points.
In Rhythmic Gymnastics, Singapore were placed 5th with 39.150 points and are reserves for the finals in the Girls' Group All Around Qualification.
Top-spot qualifier was Russia, with 52.250 points.
- CNA/ir
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