Gladys Chai von der Laage explained

Gladys Chai von der Laage (born Chai Ng Mei on 22 February 1953) is a German sports photographer of Malaysian Chinese origin. She has previously competed at the 1972 Summer Olympics as a Malaysian pentathlete.[1]

Early life

Chai Ng Mei was born on 22 February 1953 to Chinese parents.

Career

When she was 14 years old, Chai won a silver in the high jump event of the 1967 Southeast Asian Games. She trained in West Germany in 1971.[2] The following year, she represented Malaysia in the women's pentathlon event of 1972 Summer Olympics but was forced to retire because of an injury. Chai won four golds at the 1973 and 1975 SEA games; 2 each in high jump and pentathlon. She finished in the ninth place at the 1974 British Commonwealth Games's women's high jump event and bagged another gold medal in the high jump event of 1979 Southeast Asian Games.[3]

Later she became a sports photographer and was awarded the German Athletics Association's Media Prize in 2016 after more than twenty years of her work in this profession.[4] The website Sports Reference cites her as "one of the world's best-known sports photographers".

Personal life

Chai married a West German sports journalist . Together the couple established their own agency ASVOM. Laage died in 2006.[5]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: Gladys Chai. https://web.archive.org/web/20200418064751/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ch/gladys-chai-1.html. dead. 18 April 2020. Sports Reference. 14 November 2017.
  2. News: Teo. Aikman. Blazing a Golden Trail in the SEA Games. 14 November 2017. The Borneo Post. 3 June 2015.
  3. News: Sean Yee ready for Commonwealth Games. 14 November 2017. The Star. 7 February 2014.
  4. Web site: Fotografin Gladys Chai von der Laage erhält DLV-Medienpreis 2016. Photographer Gladys Chai von der Laage receives DLV Media Prize 2016. German Athletics Association. 14 November 2017. German. 18 February 2017.
  5. Web site: Rolf von der Laage verstorben. Rolf von der Laage died. German Athletics Association. 14 November 2017. German. 16 January 2006.