Zain Amat is a Singaporean

Singapore

Singapore , officially the Republic of Singapore, is a Southeast Asian city-state off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, north of the equator. An island country made up of 63 islands, it is separated from Malaysia by the Straits of Johor to its north and from Indonesia's Riau Islands by the...

 trap shooter

Trap shooting

Trap shooting is one of the three major forms of competitive clay pigeon shooting . The others are skeet shooting and sporting clays. There are many versions including Olympic trap, Double trap , Down-The-Line, and Nordic trap. American trap is most popular in the United States and Canada...

 specializing in the Olympic Double Trap

Double Trap

Double trap is a clay pigeon shooting sport, one of the ISSF shooting events. Participants use a shotgun to attempt to break a clay disk flung away from the shooter at high speed....

. He has represented Singapore since 2004 as part of the Singapore Clay Shooting Team.

At the 2005 Southeast Asian Games

2005 Southeast Asian Games

The 23rd Southeast Asian Games were held in the Philippines from November 27 to December 5 in 2005. The games were participated by the eleven nations of Southeast Asia. This was the first time that the opening and closing ceremonies were held in a large open field, despite the fact that Manila...

, Amat won an individual gold medal in Double Trap

Shooting at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games

Shooting at the 2005 Southeast Asian Games was split into two venues:*Trap and Skeet in PNSA Clay Target Range, Muntinlupa City, Metro Manila, Philippines....

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In the 2007 Southeast Asian Games

2007 Southeast Asian Games

The 24th Southeast Asian Games was held in Nakhon Ratchasima , Thailand from December 6 to December 15, 2007....

, having switched to Olympic Trap from mid-2006, he won the individual and team Olympic Trap

Shooting at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games

Shooting at the 2007 Southeast Asian Games was held at Shooting Range, Sport Authority of Thailand Sport Complex, Bangkok, Thailand-Pistol:-Rifle:-Skeet:-Trap:-External links:*...

 event; beating teammate Lee Wung Yew and Thailand's Atig Kitcharoen for the individual gold medal. Amat was also in the team that won the Olympic Double Trap team gold medal. Together with teammates Lee Wung Yew and Choo Choon Seng, Amat became a select group of SEA Games shooting athlete who have won both individual trap and double trap titles.

Amat won the Meritorious Award for Sports in 2006 and 2008.

Amat is a Malay Singaporean. He was educated at Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution

Raffles Institution , founded in 1823, is the oldest centre for pre-tertiary learning in Singapore. It is an independent school in Singapore providing secondary and pre-university education. RI consists of a boys-only secondary section , and a coeducational pre-university section...

 and later Nanyang Junior College

Nanyang Junior College

Nanyang Junior College is a junior college which is part of the education system in Singapore, offering a two-year course for pre-university students leading up to the GCE 'A' Level examinations....

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