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This is a major event on world university sports movement started in 1923. It is on this competition where our 100m national record was broken by UK Shyam at World University Games back in Beijing in 2001.

Team Singapore has sent a small athletics team to this year’s World University Games in Bangkok, Thailand. They are

Men’s 100m
KASHMIRI Shafiq (Princeton)
POH Seng Song (SMU)

Men’s 200m
KASHMIRI Shafiq (Princeton)
KHOO Kian Seong Kenneth (NTU/NIE)

Men’s 20km Walk
SIM Soon Chye Edmund (SIM)

Men’s 400m
KHOO Kian Seong Kenneth (NTU/NIE)
TENG Wei Yang Alexander (NUS)

Men’s 4×400m Relay
KASHMIRI Shafiq (Princeton)
KHOO Kian Seong Kenneth (NTU/NIE)
RAJAMANICKAM Subaish (SMU)
TENG Wei Yang Alexander (NUS)

Men’s 800m
RAJAMANICKAM Subaish (SMU)

Women’s 100m & 200m
CHOO Amanda (NTU/NIE)
SIAO MEI Ann (NTU)

This competition main purpose is for our athletes to qualify for the SEA Games 2007, for those who has still not made the cut. Also it’s a great exposure for our local lads to be competing against the more established athletes and gain some high-level competition experience. Go Team Singapore!

Results

August 9th
400m Men Heats - Kenneth Khoo, 48.55s
400m Men Heats - Alexander Teng, 50.28s

August 10th
100m Women Heats - Amanda Choo, 12.63s
100m Women Heats - Ann Siao Mei, 12.71s
100m Men Heats - Shafiq Kashmiri, 10.77s Qualified for 2nd Round
100m Men Heats- Poh Seng Song, 11.10s Qualified for 2nd Round
100m Men 2nd Round - Shafiq Kashmiri, 10.85s
100m Men 2nd Round - Poh Seng Song, 10.93s

August 11th
800m Men Heats - Subaish, 1:58.97

August 12th
200m Men Heats - Kenneth Khoo, 22.27s Qualified for 2nd Round
200m Men 2nd Round - Kenneth Khoo, 21.79s PB

August 13th
4×400m Men Heats - 3:15.49, POH Seng Song, KHOO Kian Seong Kenneth, TENG Wei Yang Alexander, RAJAMANICKAM Subaish

August 14th
Men’s 20km Walk - SIM Soon Chye Edmund, 1:51:08 SB

Credit: WUG website