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. 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. 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 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. The IOC code for Singapore was changed from SIN to SGP in September 2016, and is first used in Danang 2016, Asian Beach Games. ==Singapore Sports Awards==