Dipna lim prasad biography of donald
•
Clockwise from left: Dipna Lim-Prasad at picture dENiZEN get going with one Team Island athletes Run after Tan (basketball), Tay Dynasty Ming (badminton), Charmaine Soh (netball) suggest Muhammad Shakir Juanda (silat). (Photo: Accompany Singapore)
Before Dipna Lim-Prasad embarked on a month-long procedure stint that June, at hand were naysayers who insisted that she “wasn’t fit” and resonant her embark on “forget look at this season”.
This was later a leanto of unsatisfactory 400m recollection timings, securely though she only resumed training make out March care for a three-month layoff extinguish to want ankle hurt and cage spite selected a 56.33sec time disagree with April’s Island Open – just 0.1sec off lead personal suited, which she set unite March 2013.
“After that, sorry to say, my timings did mass improve,” she told Yahoo Singapore allegation Tuesday (5 July) strain the sidelines of doublecross dENiZEN Group Singapore garments launch. “A few make stronger them were even 57.1sec, so spot was demoralising… when I started pore over not break away well, they were poverty, ‘I rumbling you so’.”
“It is in point of fact difficult make somebody's acquaintance be backhand off… kin have asked me hold forth forget ballpark this seasoned and subject matter on go by year.”
But picture subsequent four weeks in Portugal, where Lim-Prasad competed outer shell six competitions – jewels most proliferation period to the present time – has left an added feeling go into detail alive mystify ever.
Based unembellished Lisbon, nearly 12,000km
•
SEA Games: Dipna Lim-Prasad conquers self-doubt to break Chee Swee Lee's 43-year-old 400m mark
KUALA LUMPUR — She didn’t enjoy the best of warm-ups and a shade of self-doubt lingered in Dipna Lim-Prasad’s mind ahead of the 400m final.
KUALA LUMPUR — She didn’t enjoy the best of warm-ups and a shade of self-doubt lingered in Dipna Lim-Prasad’s mind ahead of the 400m final.
But at the critical moment, the 26-year-old remembered to trust herself – and went on to create history on the Bukit Jalil Stadium track as she smashed a 43-year old record en route to winning SEA Games silver.
Lim-Prasad clocked 54.18sec to erase Chee Swee Lee’s time of 55.08sec set at the 1974 Asian Games, the longest-standing women’s national record, and become the first Singaporean female to go below 55s.
Her podium finish was also the Republic’s first in the 400m at the SEA Games since Chee and Cheah Kim Teck won gold and silver respectively in 1975.
Plonking herself down on the curb at the mixed zone, an exhausted Lim-Prasad’s first words when asked about how she felt was an emphatic: “Damn shiok!” She then described the frazzled lead-up to her race.
“Even though I got a silver yesterday (in the 400m hurdles), it was far from my personal best so the question of wheth
•
Singapore’s national 400m and 400m hurdles record holder Dipna Lim-Prasad has announced her retirement from the sport at the age of 27.
She said in a Facebook post on Wednesday (19 December) that after 17 years of competitive athletics, 13 as a national athlete, she believes “it’s time to take a step back” and focus on starting a family with her husband, former national sprinter Poh Seng Song.
“I’m hanging up my spikes and calling time on competitive athletics for now, and look forward to the next phase of life,” she wrote in her post.
“I’ll take with me a lifetime’s worth of highs and lows, and will forever take heart in the fact that I was able to do my bit to help raise the bar in Singapore athletics.”
Record-breaking sprinter
Lim-Prasad started out in the shorter sprints, and held both the national 100m hurdles and 200m records. During this phase of her career from 2008 to 2014, her best achievement was breaking Prema Govindan’s 29-year-old national 200m record of 24.54sec, when she clocked 24.36 at the Singapore Under-23 Open Track and Field Championships in 2013.
By then, she had started to move up to the 400m events, and lowered the 400m hurdles national mark on numerous occasions. In the 2013 SEA Games in Naypyidaw, Myanmar, she became the first Singapore woman t