Poh Seng Song

Poh Seng Song
Poh Seng Song (right) in 2006
Personal information
National teamSingapore
Born30 January 1983 (1983-01-30) (age 43)
Singapore
SpouseDipna Lim Prasad
Children2
Medal record
Women's athletics
Men's athletics
Representing  Singapore
South East Asian Games
Silver medal – second place2003 Hanoi4 x 100 metres relay
Bronze medal – third place2005 Manila4 x 100 metres relay

Poh Seng Song (born 30 January 1983)[1] is an athlete from Singapore who specialises in the 100 metres sprint and 4 x 100 metres relay.

Education

Poh studied at Anglo-Chinese School (Independent) (ACS(I)).[2] As of December 2005, he is an undergraduate at the Singapore Management University.

Career

In 1997, Poh broke Singapore's Schools' National 100-metre race record set by Ridzuan Rahim in 1995 with 11.68sec, 0.16sec faster, during the sixth Western Australia, Singapore and Malaysia Schools' International Track and Field Championships.[2] The record was not recognised in Singapore.[2]

Poh also played rugby for ACS(I) as a winger,[3] winning the National Schools 'C' title in 1997 and National Schools 'B' titles twice in 1998 and 1999.[1][3] He also won the National Youth League Under-14 title with Blacks RFC.[1]

In 1999, Poh represented Singapore at the Philippine Open in the men's 4x100-metre event.[4] The team won the silver medal behind Malaysia.[4] The result was affected by a poor baton change between starter Tan Wei Leong and second runner Poh.[4] Poh finished fourth in the men's 200m event.[5]

Poh, alongside with Aaron Huang, Yusof Alias and U.K. Shyam, was set to be sent to the 1999 SEA Games, held at Brunei, for the men's 4x100-metre event, pending achieving qualification results.[6] A time trial was set up for the team to qualify but due to an injury and an illness to two team members before a time trial, the trial was postponed.[7] The team failed to participate at the Selangor Open due to an injury to Shyam.[8] A special time trial was set up to replace the previous time trial at the annual inter-club championships which they failed to complete all the three attempts due to unsuccessful baton changes.[8][9]

Participating in the 2004 Summer Olympics, Poh achieved seventh place in his 100 metres heat, thus missing out on a placing in Round 2 of the event.

In 2009, Poh started working for Singapore Airlines as a pilot.[10]

Poh was Singapore Athletics' (SA) vice-president (finance & partnerships). On 18 March 2020, Poh and SA's athletes' commission representative Gary Yeo, who was recommended by Poh, resigned from the management committee of SA.[11] Both resignations were rejected by SA's management committee.[12] The management committee then banned Poh from holding any office within the jurisdiction of the association and/or its affiliates for two terms, based on the findings of a board of inquiry (BOI) on an incident of a WhatsApp chat leak.[13] The management committee had "unanimously agreed" with the findings of the BOI which allegedly concluded Poh was the one who leaked a message. Poh denied he was the one who leaked the message and he was not the whistleblower in an internal dispute.[14]

Poh then applied for a judicial review in the High Court of Singapore against SA, appealing against the BOI findings and requested for an open appeal hearing.[15] On 17 September, Poh and the management committee, withdrew his application for judicial review and the ban on Poh, respectively following a mediation session.[15] It remained unconfirmed whether did Poh leak the message.[15]

In 2020, Poh was appointed as athletes' commission representative in SA.[16]

Personal life

Poh married his girlfriend of six years, and fellow runner, Dipna Lim Prasad in 2014. They have two children together.[17]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Eyes on the track". The New Paper. 28 May 1998. p. 50. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  2. 1 2 3 "Five-gold haul for host Singapore". The Straits Times. 9 July 1997. p. 43. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  3. 1 2 Chan, Tse Chueen (5 April 1999). "Seng Song equals 100m mark". The Straits Times. p. 45. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via The Straits Times.
  4. 1 2 3 "SILVER FOR MEN'S SPRINT RELAY TEAM". The Straits Times. 30 April 1999. p. 74. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  5. ↑ "HUANG SPRINTS TO 200M GOLD". The Straits Times. 3 May 1999. p. 38. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  6. ↑ Hakikat, Rai (17 June 1999). "Tang vows to push quartet into Games". The Straits Times. p. 60. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  7. ↑ Chan, Tse Chueen (21 June 1999). "Duo's no-show kills relay trial". The Straits Times. p. 39. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  8. 1 2 Rai, Hakikat (24 June 1999). "Last chance for quartet". The Straits Times. p. 63. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  9. ↑ "THREE-TIME LOSERS". The New Paper. 30 June 1999. p. 41. Retrieved 17 June 2026 – via NewspaperSG.
  10. ↑ "The Need For Speed". PORTFOLIO Magazine. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  11. ↑ Chia, Nicole (23 March 2020). "Former national sprinters Poh and Yeo resign from S'pore Athletics' management committee". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  12. ↑ Chia, Nicole (27 March 2020). "Athletics: S'pore association says Poh Seng Song and Gary Yeo can't quit as help needed in inquiry into leak". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  13. ↑ "Ex-national sprinter Poh Seng Song banned from S'pore Athletics after inquiry into WhatsApp chat leak". The Straits Times. 30 August 2020. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  14. ↑ "Singapore Athletics spat: 'I'm not the whistleblower', says ex-sprinter Poh Seng Song". Yahoo News. 31 August 2020. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  15. 1 2 3 Lee, David (18 September 2020). "Singapore Athletics and former V-P Poh settle dispute; 4-year ban from office withdrawn". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  16. ↑ Sazali Abdul Aziz (4 November 2020). "Athletics: Former sprinter Poh Seng Song back as SA's athletes' representative". The Straits Times. ISSN 0585-3923. Retrieved 17 June 2026.
  17. ↑ Aziz, Sazali Abdul (9 June 2015). "Dipna's race against time". The New Paper. Archived from the original on 22 June 2018. Retrieved 18 June 2021.
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