Lance Tan Wei Sheng

Tan Wei Sheng Lance
Personal information
Nationality Singaporean
Born (1987-05-14) 14 May 1987
Singapore
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Weight 73 kg (161 lb)

Lance Tan Wei Sheng (born May 14, 1987) is a track and field athlete who competes internationally for The Republic of Singapore.[1] Tan won the bronze medal at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.[2] He has a quarter mile personal best of 49.44s ET set in 2009 in Taipei.[3][4] Tan also has a decathlon score of 4922 points set at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[5]

In his junior years, Tan competed in the 100m event at the Commonwealth Youth Games held in Bendigo, Australia. He finished 6th in his heat and did not advance to the next round.[6]

In 2006, Tan represented Singapore at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Beijing, China.[7]

A torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) to his left knee in mid-2007 ruled Tan out of that year's South East Asian (SEA) Games.[8] Despite the major setback, he soon returned to training and he clocked his then 400m personal best of 49.81s,[9] 9 months after under going ACL reconstruction surgery.[8]

Tan anchored the 4 × 100 m team to a bronze medal at the 15th ASEAN University Games in 2010, held in Changmai, Thailand. The team finished behind Indonesia and Thailand with a time of 40.62s.[10][11]

At the 2011 SEA Games held in Palembang, Indonesia, Tan anchored the Singapore team to the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay.[2] [12][13]

It is the first time in 36 years- since the 1975 Southeast Asian Peninsular(SEAP) Games, and the first time since the formation of the South East Asian Federation in 1977, that Singapore men have finished in the medal placings for the 4 × 400 m relay event at any major Games.[14]

Singapore Men's 4 × 400 m team after their race at the 2011 SEA Games.(L-R)Md Zaki Sapari, Ng Chin Hui, Lance Tan and Kenneth Khoo

At the inaugural 2012 Singapore National Games, Tan competed and won the gold medal in the 400m event.[15][16] Tan clinch the silver medal in the 400m Open category at the 2012 National Championships, a feat he repeated in the 2013 edition.[17]

Tan is also part of the quartet that holds the current National Junior 4 × 100 m record with a time of 41.28s, set in 2005 at the ASEAN Schools Track and Field Championships.[18][19]

Off the track, Lance featured in Singapore's first "Race the Tube ", where he was the first runner of a 4-man relay team that chased the North East Line train from Little India station to Farrer Park station.[20][21] As of June 2015, the YouTube video of this feat has garnered over 400,000 views.[22]

In 2016, he competed in the Metasprint Series Singapore duathlon and finished 2nd overall.[23] He is currently working as a research engineer at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.[24]

Tan with his gold medal at the 2012 Singapore National Games

References

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  17. "Top Performer - SUN 3rd Singapore U23 / Open Track and Field Championships 2013" (PDF). Singaporeathletics.org.sg. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  18. http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/04/Records-as-of-2016-Mar-21-v3.pdf
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  20. Abu, Jalelah (2014-11-19). "How does Singapore's #racethetube stack up against the rest of the world's? - Singapore More Singapore Stories News & Top Stories". The Straits Times. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
  21. "Can you run faster than the MRT? These four guys tried to race the train from Little India to Farrer Park MRT | The New Paper". Tnp.sg. 2014-11-17. Retrieved 2015-03-10.
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  23. http://bluechipresults.com.au/Results.aspx?CId=11&RId=830&EId=3
  24. "IMRE". Imre.a-star.edu.sg. 2013-11-01. Retrieved 2014-06-05.
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