Re: So proud of Thailand..They use their own people to win Gold medals, Unlike Sinkie
to be fair, how come real sinkie can win only bronze???
oh.. you need an FT to win a gold?? why not bribe the Thai to help sinkieland win the gold.. this is what your PAP loves to do.
SEA Games athletics: Dipna Lim-Prasad delivers Singapore’s first-ever medal in 400m hurdles ( Thailand got 66 golds already, sinkieland only got the very first one and it is bronze???)
Heading into this year’s Southeast Asia Games in Myanmar, Singapore sprinter Dipna Lim-Prasad’s season’s best in the 400m hurdles was, at 60.36s, a good two seconds behind her Vietnamese and Thai counterparts.
Few would have given the 22-year-old a chance at a medal, but Lim-Prasad stunned the watching crowd at Wunna Theikdi stadium when she strode home to take bronze in 59.96s – a personal best, national record, and the first-ever podium finish by a Singaporean in the event.
It has also been 16 years since any woman from Singapore won a track medal at the SEA Games. In 1997, both marathoner Toh So Liang and the 4x100m relay team took bronze in their respective events.
“I didn’t do as well as I hoped,” said a breathless Lim-Prasad, even though she earned her notable achievement by a clear four seconds away from fourth-placed Panida Rattanachan of Thailand.
The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) student could have gone even faster, she said, had she not been “shuffling” her feet as much to brace for each hurdle.
Vietnam’s Thi Lan Quach also gave the field an early scare by surging forward on the very first straight, causing Lim-Prasad to “panic” a little.
“I just tried to keep up with the front two as best I could, but died as usual in the final stretch,” she joked.
Gold went to Thailand’s Wassana Winatho in 58.85s while Thi settled for silver in a dramatic ending that saw both tumbling to the ground at the finish line and later being stretchered off.
“I really wanted to do Singapore proud as a flag-bearer,” said Lim-Prasad. “And it feels good to break the 60s barrier – now to focus on the relay and hopefully continue our medal streak.”