Toh Liying Explained

Toh Liying
Nickname:Toh
Birth Date:2 April 1985
Birth Place:Singapore
Weight:520NaN0
Classes:Dinghy
Club:National Optimist Sailing Scheme
Coach:Craig Ferris (AUS)
Show-Medals:yes

Toh Liying (born 2 April 1985), also known as Toh Liying, is a Singaporean former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with her 17-year-old partner Deborah Ong, she was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant nineteenth place.[2] Outside her Olympic career, Toh and her previous tandem Elizabeth Ong gave the Singaporeans a sterling silver medal in the women's 470 at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[3] While pursuing to complete her degree in biomedical sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Toh trained for the Games under the tutelage of her personal coach Craig Ferris.[4]

Toh competed for the Singaporean sailing squad, as a skipper in the women's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[5] Building up to their Olympic selection, she and crew member Ong received a spare berth forfeited by New Zealand, as the next highest-ranked tandem vying for qualification, at the class-associated Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Melbourne. The inexperienced Singaporean duo clearly struggled to catch a vast fleet of world-class sailors under breezy conditions. [6] [7]

External links

Notes and References

  1. Toh Li Ying . https://web.archive.org/web/20200418074312/https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/to/toh-li-ying-1.html . dead . 18 April 2020 . 12 April 2020.
  2. News: Low, Lin Fhoong . Much change in Olympic sailing squad . . . 21 January 2009 . 12 April 2020 . Toh Liying.
  3. News: Singapore Blitz Medals . . 15 December 2006 . 8 April 2020 . Liying TOH.
  4. News: Monash fields eleven at Beijing . . 6 August 2008 . 12 April 2020.
  5. News: Event Guide: Women's Two Person Dinghy – 470 . . 15 December 2006 . 8 April 2020.
  6. Web site: Beijing 2008: Women's 470 Class . . . 13 September 2013 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20140105145909/http://www.2008.nbcolympics.com/sailing/resultsandschedules/rsc%3DSAW005000/standings.html . 5 January 2014.
  7. Web site: Tan, Les . Beijing Olympics update: Sailors Toh Liying and Deborah Ong lie in last place in 470 . www.redsports.sg . 13 August 2008 . 12 April 2020.