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}} Laurentia Tan Yen Yi BBM PBM ( ; , pronounced ) (born 24 April 1979), is a United Kingdom-based Singaporean Para-equestrian competitor. Tan developed cerebral palsy and profound deafness after birth, and moved to the United Kingdom with her parents at the age of three. She took up horse riding at age of five years as a form of physiotherapy. She subsequently completed her A-levels at the Mary Hare Grammar School, a residential special school for the deaf, and graduated with an honours degree from Oxford Brookes University in hospitality management and tourism. 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 in London, a bronze in the dressage Individual Championship Test (class Ia). She followed this up with a silver medal in the Individual Freestyle Test (class Ia) on 4 September. For her achievements, Tan was conferred a ''Bintang Bakti Masyarakat'' (Public Service Star) by the President in November 2012. ==Early years and education== Laurentia Tan was born on 24 April 1979 in Singapore.〔.〕 She moved with her family to London at the age of three years due to her father's work.〔.〕〔.〕 Tan developed cerebral palsy and profound deafness after birth, and doctors informed her parents that she would probably not be able to walk. Her family decided to settle in the United Kingdom as they felt she would be better able to reach her full potential with the medical facilities and specialist educational support available there.〔 When she was in school, she fell so often and sustained so many minor injuries that her teachers and the school nurse affectionately nicknamed her "Trouble". At five years she was unable to sit and walk properly, and took up horse riding at the Diamond Centre for Disabled Riders〔.〕 in London as a form of physiotherapy.〔 This activity also helped her confidence and self-esteem.〔.〕 Tan completed her A-levels at the Mary Hare Grammar School, a residential special school for the deaf,〔 where she was a prefect. She also won an Elizabeth Dyson Prize for progress and achievement〔Compare .〕 and a prize for business studies.〔.〕 From the age of 18, she stopped horse riding for eight years to pursue an honours degree in hospitality management and tourism at Oxford Brookes University,〔 and for a job as a mental health worker.〔〔 However, she missed the sport and took it up again in 2005. Tan said, "For me, riding a horse gives me the freedom, movement and energy that my own legs cannot do."〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Laurentia Tan」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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