Two-time Commonwealth gold medallist Jasmine Ser (pictured) was one of the Singaporean athletes to arrive in Surrey along with fellow shooters Poh Lip Meng, Gai Bin and Lim Swee Hon.

"Training here in Surrey this week will help us prepare for next summer's Olympic Games and help all the athletes know what to expect when we arrive again to train next year," Ser said.

"All the facilities at Surrey Sports Park are located together which helps with our intensive training as everything is easily accessible which enables us to focus more on our training."

The team have also been joined by their badminton and table tennis counterparts and will spend the next three weeks staying and training at Surrey Sports Park and Bisley National Shooting Centre.

Paul Blanchard, Surrey Sports Park chief executive said: "Today is certainly a landmark day.

"We now have less than one year until the start of the London 2012 Olympics and the first athletes from Singapore arriving here at Surrey Sports Park to begin their pre-Games training.

"Over the next three weeks we will welcome over 40 athletes and officials from Team Singapore to the Sports Park and during this period we aim to ensure the team's training, accommodation and nutritional requirements are fully met.

"In the coming year we will welcome back athletes from Singapore, Antigua and Barbuda and Nigeria and we aim to play a key role in the successful preparations of all the teams for London 2012."

Singapore are the first of the confirmed nations to train in Surrey ahead of London 2012, with athletes from Antigua and Barbuda and Nigeria also set to use Surrey venues, including Surrey Sports Park and the Guildford Spectrum for training preparations.

Surrey Sports Park hosts the county's first 50 metre pool as well as three large sports arenas, six glass backed squash courts, with two show courts for 160 spectators, eight outdoor floodlit tennis courts, two new floodlit artificial grass pitches, ten outdoor pitches, a 120 station health and fitness centre and a 12m high climbing centre with a unique bouldering facility.

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