Interviews with sports personalities
Meet Dr Kua Harn Wei – a mature late thirty-something, career academic, and serious athlete. He is Singapore’s first Double-Ironman, Quadruple-Ironman and Deca-Ironman. He has completed 10 Ironman triathlons back-to-back, over 10 days.
At five, he started to climb. At nine, he clinched top spot for the Youth category in the Czech National Championship. He began his route-setting career in 2001 as Chief Route Setter for Czech state level competitions and presided over the Czech Youth National Championships in 2004 and 2005. Both as an athlete and a route setter, Jan Zbranek is no stranger to the international sport climbing arena.
Hong Wei Jian was the outstanding local player for the Singapore Slingers in 2010 ASEAN Basketball League season with an average 6.9 points and 1.9 rebounds per game to lead the locals.
Jeri Collett, 35, started out in triathlons and progressed to ultra-marathons in 2009. She is one of 35 runners slated to run 100km at the North Face 100 on October 9th. Training for a trail run in relatively flat Singapore is a challenge in itself, Jeri shared. Red Sports caught up with her about her love for trail and endurance running.
A love of nature drew Kenneth Koh, 45, to trail running. Kenneth, who took part in the Gobi March, a 250km desert ultra-marathon, in 2005, is planning an attempt to climb the North Ridge of Mount Everest from Tibet in the Spring of 2011, something no Singaporean has yet attempted.
A desire to lose weight for health reasons nine years ago set Terence Chiew, 34, on the path of endurance running. Since then, he's done many races, including a 333km race in Morocco in December 2009. Terence is one of 35 athletes slated to run 100km in the North Face 100 on October 9th. We catch up with Terence on what motivates him about endurance running.
The Singapore Slingers beat the Rain or Shine of the Philippine Basketball Association (PBA) 97-72 last Sunday. Five new local players came off the bench — Tan Chin Hong, Ng Hanbin, Gary Koh, Brian Tan and Teo Chun Hoe.
Singapore rider Caroline Chew rode Gatineau to Team Asia's fourth placing in the jumping team competition and joint-17th in the jumping individual competition at the Youth Olympic Games (YOG).