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By Rameshon
Bsc (Hons) Degree in Physical Education, Loughborough University (1992-1994)
Masters in Education (University of Western Australia, 2005-2008)
Note :
Please take note that all reported timings here are the net timing.
The organisers take the gun time as the overall time.
SAFRA SINGAPORE BAY RUN - ARMY HALF MARATHON 2010
PICTURE 1 - LEFT TO RIGHT -- Jian Hong, Yeo Si Heng, Jian Ler, Rameshon, Yong Liang, Nathaniel Wong, S. Jeevanesh and Ashley Liew
12 Sept 2010
In the early morning, around 4:30am, I had to reach Esplanade, near Connaught Drive to assist the Hwa Chong Institution(college) athletes in the Army Half Marathon 2010. The three serious runners Jeevanesh, Si Heng and Jian Hong were interested in doing a fast time for the 10km run. Jian Hong did his own training and did around 39min. Si Heng did a reasonable time of 38mins plus for the 10km run.
The main highlight was S. Jeevanesh, who was determined to do a time of 35min for the 10km run. In his race, Thomas Kiprotich of Kenya became the champion with a very good time of 31min 59sec, considering our humidity and weather. There was a tussle for 6th and 7th position going on between Aldrich Lim and Jeevanesh. At the last 300m stretch, the distance between the leader Jeevanesh and Aldrich was only 4sec. However, towards the end of the race, Jeeva switched to another gear and led Aldrich by about 8sec at the finish line in the 10km Men Open race. Hence, Jeevanesh came in 6th position. Both are junior runners who are still studying in their respective schools. It was Jeevanesh's first time running a 10km race as he has been only focusing on 800m and 1500m earlier. Jeevanesh recollected that the race was tough because he had to encounter two hills during the run. It was also a personal best for him as his time was 35min 00sec.
I watched the men open half-marathon race and saw a number of runners running past the last 200m, many of them from Kenya, India, Thailand and other countries. The top 10 runners did a time of 1hr 10min and below. My observation is that the number of timing for the men open is getting faster and faster over time for the men open. Thanks to the organisers for inviting athletes of high calibre. The top runner by the name of Julius from Kenya came in with a time of 1hr 05min 47sec and became the overall champion in the event. Later on, I also saw Mok Ying Ren coming in and he looked tired. The last portion, if he was able to run faster, he could have got a better time for the race. He came in as the men closed champion for the Army Half-Marathon 2010. He is, in fact, the pride of our nation is doing very good timing for the recent half-marathon races overseas, recently.
In the women open section of the half-marathon, Eunice Nyawira of Kenya registered a time of 1hr 20min 48sec and came in as the champion. In the women closed race of the half-marathon, Qi Hui came in with a respectable time of 1hr 28min 02sec and won the race as the champion. Second, in the race was Elaine Lim who came in with a time of 1hr 34min 05sec. The third position went to Koh Leng Leng. Surprisingly, Sheryl Loh, a former Hwa Chong Institution student who has taken up running from tennis, came in 7th with a time of 1hr 37min 01sec. Lately, she has taken up running as a passion and she has been improving since.
In the Army Formation challenge, 6 Division clinched the overall team championships, which was taken from the total gun time of the 14 runners. The coach of 6th Division, Donald Ng, an MR 25 Club committee member, was seen on Tuesdays and Thursdays training the team at CCAB, near the LKY School of Policy, doing workouts. Donald was very happy and told me the news which made 6 Div very happy. I told him that I would like to interview 6Div on their recent win and he was more than willing to give me the interview soon.
The second position went to 9 Division. Many were surprised with the achievement of 9 Division. It was not surprising as 9 Division was having good runners. They are having runners like Dr Benny Goh, Michael Lui and Cheong Peng Tat, to name a few. In the third position, my former Army unit, 2 PDF, who was found seriously training seriously at Mac Ritchie recently, was third. The fourth position went to 3 Division, with their best runner Ashley Liew doing 1hr 23min 46sec for the half-marathon. Ashley Liew was second in the Standard Chartered Marathon 2009. A few weeks back, while training, he was seriously injured from a bad fall from his bicycle. He had to go for physiotherapy recently and had to lower down on his mileage. In one of the week, he could only do walking for training. Overall, he told me that he was very happy with the time as the last year's time was 1hr 30min as compared to this year's 1hr 23min 46sec. He is still recovering from the injury and is getting better over time.
We ended the happy day by taking photos. The crowd today looked great. The results were posted at four places so that athletes and coaches were able to view the results well. This is a very good initiative and the results were out very fast.
21 KM MEN OPEN
1 JULIUS NYAMUN 1HR 05MIN 47SEC
2 SERDA AGUS 1HR 07MIN 13SEC
3 NEERAJ 1HR 08MIN 39SEC
4 JAVEER SINGH 1HR 08MIN 47SEC
5 MUINDI KEN 1HR 08MIN 53SEC
6 VL DANGI 1HR 09MIN 07SEC
7 DEEPCHANSHAAN 1HR 10MIN 06SEC
8 MD YUNUS 1HR 10MIN 41SEC
9 DEEPAK SINGH 1HR 10MIN 47SEC
10 LETDA GADE 1HR 10MIN 53SEC
21km MEN CLOSED
1 MOK YING REN 1HR 16MIN 14SEC
2 JAGAT BAHDUR 1HR 17MIN 10SEC
3 GIRIDER SWAMINATHAN 1HR 18MIN 49SEC
4 JASMAN GURUNG 1HR 18MIN 59SEC
5 SOH RUI YONG 1HR 19MIN 46SEC
6 P RAMESH 1MIN 20SEC 25SEC
7 ANG CHEE YONG 1HR 20MIN 29SEC
8 CHEONG PENG TAT 1HR 21MIN 19SEC
9 TILAK BAHADUR 1HR 21MIN 40SEC
10 S DEVATHAS 1HR 21MIN 49SEC
MEN MASTERS - 1/2 marathon
1 JIRATTIGRAN 1HR 16MIN 37SEC
2 RICHARD BELLAMY 1HR 17MIN 22SEC
3 LAIDER 1HR 19MIN 48SEC
10KM MEN OPEN
Pic 2- Thomas Kiprotich won the 10km race of the men open race
2 DEV KUMAR RAI 33MIN 14.85SEC
3 UMESH RAI 34MIN 15.80SEC
4 P RAMACHANDRAN 34MIN 53.20SEC Singapore
5 LAXMI KUMAR LIMBU 34MIN 55.00SEC
6 S JEEVANESH 35MIN 00.65SEC Singapore
7 ALDRICH LIM 35MIN 09.55SEC Singapore
8 RABINDRA KUMAR RAI 35MIN 19.30SEC
9 HANIPAL ANG BUHANG 35MIN 32.25SEC
10 SANJEEV TUMBAHANG 35MIN 37.20SEC
MEN MASTERS 10KM RUN
1 KEK HONG LENG 37MIN 23SEC
2 LAWRENCE LIM 40MIN 9SEC
3 TANASEKARAN 41MIN 31SEC
21km WOMEN OPEN
1 Eunice NYAWIRA KEN 1HR 20MIN 48EC
2 SUSAN JEMUTAI KEN 1HR 30MIN 45SEC
3 NATHASHA BUCKLEY BRI 1HR 33MIN 03SEC
4 TRUDY FAWCETT BRI 1HR 35MIN 45SEC
5 AMY GORDON USA 1HR 37MIN 04SEC
6 KATHRYN WALKERUSA 1HR 40MIN 14SEC
21KM WOMEN CLOSED
Pic 3 - Anne Date Qi Hui was the champion in the women closed.
2 ELAINE LIM 1HR 34MIN 05SEC
3 KOH LENG LENG 1HR 35MIN 18SEC
4 RACHEL SEE 1HR 35MIN 50SEC
5 MICHELLE CHAY 1HR 36MIN 42SEC
6 CHRISTINA POETZSCH 1HR 37MIN 24SEC
7 SHERYL LOH 1HR 37MIN 01SEC
8 JOCELYN CHAN 1HR 38MIN 58SEC
9 LIM BAOYING 1HR 40MIN 14SEC
10 VANESSA TANG 1HR 41MIN 12SEC
WOMEN MASTERS
1 SIOBHAN 1HR 37MIN 56SEC
2 RODA M RAMOS 1HR 41MIN
3 YONG LAI CHEE 1HR 42MIN 43SEC
Army Formation - CHAMPION TEAM - 6 DIVISION
(TOTAL GUN TIME TAKEN OF 14 RUNNERS -20HRS 59MIN 57SEC)
1 CHEONG KIEN WENG 1HR 24MIN 40SEC
2 CHEE EVAN 1HR 24MIN 58SEC
3 NAISH NAVIN SAMSON 1HR 25MIN 14SEC
4 PAND SELVAN 1HR 26MIN 56SEC
5 ANANTHARAJ 1HR 27MIN 26SEC
6 JAGDISH SINGH 1HR 28MIN 19SEC
7 M. KUMAR 1HR 29MIN 47SEC
8 LIM DAWEN 1HR 30MIN 02SEC
9 P SUBRAMANIAM 1HR 31MIN 59SEC
10 KENNY HAN 1HR 32MIN 02SEC
11 MATTHEW 1HR 32MIN 09SEC
12 KIEW EE CHUAN 1HR 32MIN 18SEC
13 JAX TAN JIN XIAN 1HR 35MIN 08SEC
14 LIM WOON PIN 1HR 36MIN 46SEC
15 Muhammad Zainuddeen 1HR 37MIN 49SEC
16 ISA RAZELEIGH 1HR 42MIN 55SEC
2ND - 9 DIVISION
(TOTAL GUN TIME OF 14 RUNNERS - 21HRS 36MIN 49SEC)
1 CHEONG PENG TAT 1HR 21MIN 19SEC
2 HO GHIM KHOON 1HR 24MIN 50SEC
3 WILLY LOO 1HR 26MIN 09SEC
4 MICHAEL LUI 1HR 26MIN 26SEC
5 BENNY GOH 1HR 26MIN 47SEC
6 MOHAMMAD AZREAN 1HR 30MIN 09SEC
7 DANNY LIM 1HR 34MIN 14SEC
8 MUHAMMAD IZZUDIN 1HR 35MIN 18SEC
9 HEN CHYUAN SHENG 1HR 35MIN 24SEC
10 ANG CHEE KANG 1HR 35MIN 45SEC
11 POON CHUNG KIAT 1HR 37MIN 55SEC
12 JOSEPH IVAN 1HR 39MIN 06SEC
13 CHEW HONG YUN 1HR 40MIN 11SEC
14 MD ZAHIR 1HR 40MIN 34SEC
15 LIN ZHIXIANG 1HR 41MIN 25SEC
16 KEE PAU BOON 1HR 42MIN 37SEC
3RD Position - 2 PDF -
(TOTAL GUN TIME TAKEN FOR 14 RUNNERS - 22HRS 22MIN 21SEC)
1 ANG CHEE YONG 1HR 20MIN 29SEC
2 S DEVATHAS 1HR 21MIN 49SEC
3 COLIN TUNG 1HR 22MIN 43SEC
4 SHI RONGHUA 1HR 23MIN 26SEC
5 SUNIL NAIR 1HR 28MIN 47SEC
6 JONATHAN EDWARD D'RUZ 1HR 32.33SEC
7 JEREMY DEE 1HR 39.46SEC
8 KWAN PING KAN 1HR 39MIN 48SEC
9 LIT JAYMOND 1HR 40MIN 41SEC
10 BENJAMIN POH 1HR 42MIN 03SEC
11 OH HUI JIAT 1HR 43MIN 03SEC
12 PETER M 1HR 46MIN 54SEC
13 CHUA WENZHENG 1HR 48MIN 42SEC
14 THANGARAJ SELVARAJ 1HR 48MIN 45SEC
15 MUHD NASZREEN 1HR 50MIN 29SEC
16 SIA LIAN HUAT 1HR 50MIN 20SEC
4TH POSITION
3RD DIV
(TOTAL GUN TIME TAKEN FOR 14 RUNNERS - 22HRS 33MIN 40SEC)
1 ASHLEY LIEW 1HR 23MIN 46SEC
2 ALLAN TENG 1HR 24MIN 10SEC
3 NE WEI WEN 1HR 29MIN 02SEC
4 MICHAEL HUA 1HR 30MIN 03SEC
5 LEE ZHI XIANG 1HR 36MIN 47SEC
6 JAISHARN 1HR 38MIN 52SEC
7 FARIS 1HR 38MIN 20SEC
8 RAVICHANDRAN 1HR 38MIN 45SEC
9 HE RUI JIE 1HR 40MIN 00SEC
10 YAP CHUEN HWEE 1HR 40.18SEC
11 VICTOR TAN 1HR 41MIN 03SEC
12 CLEMENT CHUA 1HR 42MIN 32SEC
13 JAYA BENUGOBALAN 1HR 42MIN 50SEC
14 ONG CHI HAO 1HR 43MIN 47SEC
15 TAN PING HONG 1HR 43MIN 46SEC
16 WILSTON LEONG 1HR 44MIN 13SEC
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By Narayanan
Rameshon has taught in Hwa Chong Institution, plus several schools, and Republic Polytechnic as well. He has won many accolades and he was awarded Merit Award for 1991 marathon performance in breaking the national record of Singapore, at that time. He has made 22 male athletes do a marathon in sub-3hrs. He has made 7 female runners do sub-4 hours for the marathon, as well. He was inducted to the ‘Roll of Honour’ by the then College of Physical Education, organised by Singapore Olympic Academy, in 1998, for breaking the National record repeatedly 4 times, till he did 2hr 24min 22sec).
He also has a Coaching group and he trains them on Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7pm at Botanic Gardens. Those interested can call him at 91004369 for coaching assistance, to improve performance. There is also personal training that he does for many in a week. You can e-mail him at swift.rameshon@gmail.com.
