Singapore National Olympic Council

{{Infobox National Olympic Committee

| title = Singapore National Olympic Council

| logo = Singapore National Olympic Council logo.svg

| size = 100px

| country = Singapore

| code = SGP

| created = {{Start date and age|df=yes|1947|05|27}}

| recognized = 1948

| association = OCA

| headquarters =

| president = Grace Fu

| secretary general = Chris Chan

| website = {{Official URL}}

}}

The Singapore National Olympic Council (SNOC) is the National Olympic Committee and National Paralympic Committee for the Republic of Singapore. It was founded in 1947 as the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council (SOSC) before renaming to its current iteration in 1970.

The SNOC is responsible for supporting, entering and overseeing Team Singapore for the Olympic Games, Youth Olympic Games, Winter Olympic Games, Winter Youth Olympic Games, SEA Games, Asian Games, Asian Youth Games and the Commonwealth Games.{{fact|date=June 2025}}

The SNOC is currently headed by Grace Fu, who was elected on 5th January following the resignation of former President Tan Chuan Jin.{{cite web | url=https://www.channelnewsasia.com/singapore/grace-fu-elected-singapore-national-olympic-council-snoc-president-tan-chuan-jin-resignation-4027516 | title=Grace Fu elected as Singapore National Olympic Council president }}

History

Before the 1948 Summer Olympics organised by Britain, Britain sent out invitations to its colonies and dependencies to participate in the Games. However, due to a lack of an Olympic Council, Singapore, despite being a Crown Colony, was omitted. This led to the formation of the Singapore Olympic and Sports Council on 27 May 1947. It was planned that the Council would merge with a similar Olympic Council of Malaya.{{Cite web|last=hermes|date=2017-08-03|title=Founding of SNOC in 1947|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/founding-of-snoc-in-1947|access-date=2021-09-17|website=The Straits Times|language=en}}

Singapore Olympic and Sports Council became an affiliate of the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in 1948. That same year, Singapore sent its first two-men team to the Olympics in London. Lloyd Valberg became the first Singaporean to participate in the Olympic Games.{{cite Sports-Reference|url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/lloyd-valberg-1.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200418112234/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/va/lloyd-valberg-1.html|url-status=dead|archive-date=18 April 2020|title=Lloyd Valberg|access-date=30 October 2014}} He was accompanied by a manager, Jocelyn de Souza.

Singapore has since participated at other international and regional games which included the 1951 inaugural Asian Games, the Commonwealth Games at Cardiff, Wales in 1958{{Cite web|title=SPORTING GLORY|url=https://biblioasia.nlb.gov.sg/files/pdf/vol-14/v14-issue2_Sporting.pdf}} and the inaugural South East Asian Peninsular Games (which was renamed as Southeast Asian Games later) in 1959. Since then, Singapore has been a regular participant in these games.

In 1970, Singapore Olympic and Sports Council was renamed as Singapore National Olympic Council.{{Cite book|last=Keat|first=Leng, Ho|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LizhBgAAQBAJ|title=Emerging Trends and Innovation in Sports Marketing and Management in Asia|date=2015-01-31|publisher=IGI Global|isbn=978-1-4666-7528-5|pages=237|language=en}}

The IOC code for Singapore was changed from SIN to SGP in September 2016, and is first used in Danang 2016, Asian Beach Games.{{Cite web|url=https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-to-be-known-as-sgp-instead-of-sin-at-sporting-events|title=Singapore to be known as SGP, instead of SIN, at sporting events|date=September 17, 2016|website=The Straits Times}}

Singapore Sports Awards

In 1968, the SNOC introduced the Singapore Sports Awards to recognise athletes who made significant achievements.{{cite web | url=https://eresources.nlb.gov.sg/infopedia/articles/SIP_1783_2011-02-22.html | title=Singapore Sports Awards | access-date=6 August 2020}} It includes awards such as Sportsman and Sportswoman of the Year, as well as Team of the Year and Coach of the Year. The awards cover a wide variety of categories, and also honour other parts of the fraternity apart from athletes and officials.

A new award category, Best Sports Photo of the Year, was also introduced in 2017.{{fact|date=June 2025}}