Lance Tan Wei Sheng
 Lance Tan at the 2015 South East Asian Games | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Tan Wei Sheng Lance | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Nationality | Singaporean | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Born | 14 May 1987 Singapore | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 73 kg (161 lb) | ||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
| |||||||||||||||||||||
Lance Tan Wei Sheng (born May 14, 1987) is a track cyclist[1] and former track and field athlete who competes internationally for The Republic of Singapore.[2] Tan won the bronze medal at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games.[3] He has a quarter mile personal best of 49.44s ET set in 2009 in Taipei.[4][5] Tan also has a decathlon score of 4922 points set at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games.[6][7]
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.[8]
In 2006, Tan represented Singapore at the IAAF World Junior Championships in Athletics, held in Beijing, China.[9][10]
Tan, together with Elfi Mustapa, Gary Yeo and Amirudin Jamal won bronze in the 4x100m relay 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.[11][12]
At the 2011 SEA Games held in Palembang, Indonesia, Tan anchored the Singapore team to the bronze medal in the 4 × 400 m relay.[3] [13][14][15]
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.[16]
At the inaugural 2012 Singapore National Games, Tan competed and won the gold medal in the 400m event.[17][18] Tan clinch the silver medal in the 400m Open category at the 2012 National Championships, a feat he repeated in the 2013 edition.[19] He 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.[20][21]
Tan represented Singapore in the decathlon at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games, finishing 8th with a new personal best.[22][23]
In 2016, he switched sport to track cycling, representing Singapore in the sprint and team sprint at the Asian Cycling Confederation Track Asia Cup, finishing 10th and 4th respectively.[24] Lance also won the yellow jersey in the 2016 OCBC Cycle Road Series, accumulating the most number of points over 4 races in the Men's Sports category.[25] [26]
He is currently working as a research engineer at the Agency for Science, Technology and Research.[27]
References
- ^ "Track - Results". www.uci.ch. Retrieved 12 October 2016.
- ^ "Red Sports. Always Game. | Red Sports – Telling the Singapore Sports Story". Redsports.sg. 26 July 2011. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ a b "Athlete Profile". Teamsingapore.com.sg. 9 November 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2014/10/SIN-2013-men.pdf
- ^ "Lance Tan | SEA Games". Seagames.sg. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ http://www.todayonline.com/sports/decathlon-cycling-its-new-journey-tan
- ^ https://www.redsports.sg/2015/06/11/sea-games-athletics-lance-tan-achieves-personal-best-in-mens-decathlon/
- ^ http://bendigo2004.thecgf.com/About_the_Games/Results/Athletics/
- ^ http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/lance-tan-wei-sheng-sea-games-2015-athletics-squad
- ^ https://www.myactivesg.com/~/media/consumer/images/team%20singapore/major%20games/seag2015/comms%20book/athletics/athletics.pdf
- ^ "15th Asean University Game 2010 | Singapore Athletic Association". Singaporeathletics.org.sg. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Red Sports. Always Game. | Red Sports – Telling the Singapore Sports Story". Redsports.sg. 22 December 2010. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ connect (17 July 2012). "Malaysian drug cheats stripped of SEA Games gold". Sportskeeda. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ Singh, Devinder (14 November 2013). "SEA GAMES: MAF gets its way - Other - New Straits Times". Nst.com.my. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ http://www.todayonline.com/sports/decathlon-cycling-its-new-journey-tan
- ^ "Statistics, history, results and medal tally on Singapore participation at the SEAP/SEA Games from 1959 to 2011" (PDF). Singaporeathletics.org.sg. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- ^ "Day 3 - PM Session" (PDF). Singaporeathletics.org.sg. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- ^ "2012 Singapore National Games | Singapore Athletic Association". Singaporeathletics.org.sg. 22 August 2012. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ "Top Performer - SUN 3rd Singapore U23 / Open Track and Field Championships 2013" (PDF). Singaporeathletics.org.sg. Retrieved 10 March 2015.
- ^ http://www.singaporeathletics.org.sg/wp-content/uploads/downloads/2016/04/Records-as-of-2016-Mar-21-v3.pdf
- ^ "Red Sports. Always Game. | Red Sports – Telling the Singapore Sports Story". Redsports.sg. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
- ^ http://www.todayonline.com/sports/decathlon-cycling-its-new-journey-tan
- ^ https://www.redsports.sg/2015/06/11/sea-games-athletics-lance-tan-achieves-personal-best-in-mens-decathlon/
- ^ http://www.uci.ch/track/results/
- ^ http://www.straitstimes.com/sport/thumbs-up-for-cycling-road-race-series
- ^ http://www.todayonline.com/sports/riders-earn-spots-national-road-racing-squad
- ^ "IMRE". Imre.a-star.edu.sg. 1 November 2013. Retrieved 5 June 2014.
