http://redsports.sg/2007/07/04/world-class-9-year-old-sprinter-right-here-in-singapore
TRACK & FIELD
48th National Inter-Primary Track & Field Championship
2007
Tuesday, 3 July 2007 at Bishan Stadium
An unbelieveably fast 9-year-old Primary Three student has been
burning up the tracks at the 48th National Inter-Primary Track
& Field Championship held at Bishan Stadium.
Kang Yee Cher of Fuhua Primary School hit the tape in 12.69s in the
100m D-Boys Semifinal yesterday afternoon. In fact, he had gone
even faster in the 100m heats last Wednesday, 27 June, crossing the
finishing line in a new championship record of 12.48s. How fast is
that? As a comparison, that is faster than the American record of
12.71s for the 9-10 years of age (Bantam) category according to the
USA Track & Field (USATF) web site. His time is also faster
than the UK U-13 record of 12.5s.
Showing a startlingly well-developed body for a 10-year-old, Kang
Yee Cher finished his semifinal 100m almost two seconds ahead of
his closest challenger. In yesterday's heat, Ong Sin Yao of Kong
Hwa School finished behind him in second spot with a time of
14.56s. The winner of the second 100m semifinal heat, Lucas Lee,
finished in 14.5s.
In this afternoon's 4×100m relay heats, Yee Cher received the baton
as the anchor runner about 5 metres behind the leading runner.
However, he erased that deficit and blew his opponent away to
finish first with metres to spare.
If we do in fact have a world-class sprinter living right here on
our little red dot of an island, you read it here first on Red
Sports. And someone, please make sure the Indochina-born boy has
Singapore citizenship quick. He might be gone in a flash.
-beside a regular 9 year old..
