SPORTS SINGAPORE BOOK OF RECORDS
Marathon, UltraMarathon Largest Marathon Participation
A record number of 50,000 took part in the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon on 6 Dec 2009. Reigning world champion Luke Kibet set a new course record of 2 hr 11 min 24 sec.
First Off -Road 50-Km Marathon
Lexxus Tan came in fi rst in the fi rst offi cial off -road ultra marathon North Face 100 on 4 Oct 2008. He completed the 50-km race, around the MacRitchie Reservoir and Bukit Timah Nature Reserve, in 4 hr 38 min 54 sec. He teamed up with Kek Hong Leong and clocked a combined time of 9 hr 50 min 16 sec. Each team member has to run 50 km and both members adding up to 100 km.
First To Complete 4-Deserts Series
Leow Kah Shin is the fi rst Singaporean to conquer the 4-Deserts challenge – a quartet of self-supported 250-km runs across the Gobi, Atacama, Sahara and Antarctica. He has battled the driest, hottest, windiest and cold- est places on Earth; covering more than 1,000 km over a 13-month period in 2007-2008.
First To Complete Death Valley Challenge
Asia’s First Night Marathon & Double Marathon
More than 6,000 runners took part in the in- augural Adidas Sundown Marathon, organised by HiVelocity on 31 May 2008. Participants started and ended at Changi Beach Park. At the same event, runners could also do the double marathon. 30-year-old Fabian William Raj and 26-year-old Jeanette Wang clinched the men’s and women’s open category titles respectively in the gruelling 84-km race. Raj fi nished the distance in 7 hr 37 min 15 sec while Wang fi nished in 9 hr 14 min 36 sec.
Fastest Double Marathon Runners
At the Adidas Sundown Mara- thon on 31 May 2008, Benny
Goh completed it in 7 hr 36 min 5 sec, while Jeanette Wang won the women’s open in 8 hr 47 min 36 sec.
Oldest Person To Complete Double Marathon
58-year-old Yap Swee Liong completed the Adidas Sundown Marathon on 1 Jun 2008. Yap was the oldest person to run the 84 km race, completing it in 11 hr 10 min 31 sec.
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Two of Singapore’s ultra-marathon runners, Lim Nghee Huat and Yong Yuen Cheng did the 217-km run across Death Valley, through extreme temperatures of up to 55 deg C and a vertical elevation of 4,000m from 19-21 Jul 2007. Both successfully scaled the summit of Whitney Portal to complete the race, Lim in a time of 51.49 hr and Yong in 54.39 hr. They were the fi rst from South-East Asia to participate in the chal- lenge.
Fastest Marathoner
Singapore’s fastest marathoner is Murigah Rameshon. At the 1995 SEA Games in Chiang Mai, Thailand, he clocked in a personal best of 2 hr 24 min 22 sec. He has competed in more than 20 marathons.
First Woman To Clock Under 3-Hr In A Marathon
Toh So Liang ran the 42.195 km distance in 2 hr 53 min 9 sec during the 1989 Mobil Marathon.
First Marathon
The Singapore Marathon was fi rst held in 1982 and was won by Raymond Crabb from England in a time of 2 hr 24 min 19 sec. From 1982 to 1998, the marathon was held once in two years. Since 1999 it has been held annually.
Motorsports First Formula One Night Race
The Formula One SingTel Singapore Grand Prix took place from 26-28 Sep 2008. The Marina Bay circuit is 5 km in length – the circuit’s 61 laps add up to an overall race length of 309 km. Formula One’s fi rst night race, was won by Spanish driver Fernando Alonso driving for the Renault F1 team.
Oldest Marathon Runner
Richard Khoo was the oldest participant at the Standard Chartered Singapore Marathon. The retired civil servant was 81 when he partici- pated in the 2004 marathon. He has taken part in over 40 marathons.
Most Number Of Marathons Ran
Chan Meng Hui started running marathons at 55, after he retired. As at 2010, at 80 years, he has completed 86 full marathons in Singapore and overseas. Previously a heavy smoker and drinker, he has quit all that to devote himself to a running regime.
Most Prolifi c Race Driver
Melvin Choo is the fi rst Sin- gaporean race driver to chalk up 30 race participations in 2008, with a total of seven victories, eight podium fi nishes and fi ve pole positions in three diff erent cars - Aston Martin, BMW and Porsche. Among the races were four high-profi le events in motorsports; FIA World Touring Car Championships (FIA WTCC), AFOS Asia Touring Car Series, Aston Martin Asia Cup and Porsche Carrera Cup Asia. He is the fi rst and only South-East Asian to race at the FIA WTCC.
Fastest Racing Car Built In Singapore
The NUS FSAE Race Car, Centennial V, was placed 19th out of 119 in overall rankings in the Formula Society of Automotive Engineers (FSAE) race, held in Michigan, USA, in May 2009. The 202-kg one-seater was capable of reaching 0-100 kph in under 4 sec.
First
International Motor Sport Winner
Denis Lian became the fi rst Singa- porean to win an international motor sport title in 2002 when he won the Asian Formula 2000 Series. He was the fi rst to compete in Europe when he participated in the Formula Palmer Audi Euroseries in 2005. He had also competed in the 2006/2007 A1 Grand Prix.
Fastest Under-12 Kart Driver
Andrew Tang Li-Hern, a 10-year-old boy from St Michael’s School, clinched the Asian Karting Championships title in Macau in 2005. He averaged 55.4 sec for 12 laps at the region’s leading karting championship and managed to clinch the title in the Formula Cadet 85 category.
First Grand Prix
The Orient Year Grand Prix was held in 1961 at the Thomson Road 4.865-km circuit which encompassed Old Upper Thomson Road. It included both car and motorcycle races. It was won by Ian Barnwell in an Aston Martin DB3S.
First Malayan Grand Prix
The Malayan Grand Prix was organised in 1962 by the then Ministry of Culture. Its fi rst winner was Jaguar driver, Yong Nam Kee. When Singapore gained independence, it formed its own Grand Prix with the fi rst races held on 9-11 Apr 1966. Lee Han Seng, driving a Lotus 22 won the race. The Singapore Grand Prix lasted until 1973.
Longest Motor Rally
The Singapore Airlines London-Sydney Rally covers 31,107 km. The rally was won on 28 Sep 1977 by a British team comprising of Andrew Cowan, Colin Malkin and Michael Broad in a Mercedes 280E.
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