Calvin Kang (Kang Li Loong, ; born 16 April 1990) is a

track and field Track and field is a sport that includes athletic contests based on running, jumping, and throwing skills. The name is derived from where the sport takes place, a running track and a grass field for the throwing and some of the jumping events ...

sprint athlete who competes internationally for

Singapore Singapore (), officially the Republic of Singapore, is a sovereign island country and city-state in maritime Southeast Asia. It lies about one degree of latitude () north of the equator, off the southern tip of the Malay Peninsula, borde ...

.Athlete biography: Calvin Kang
beijing2008.cn, ret: Aug 26, 2008 He specialises in the 100m sprint, but also runs the 200m and 4 × 100 m events.

Personal life

Kang attended

Victoria School Victoria School (VS) is a government autonomous boys' secondary school in Siglap, Singapore. Established in 1876, it is Singapore's second oldest state secondary school. It offers a six-year Integrated Programme, which allows students to skip t ...

and

Singapore Sports School Singapore Sports School (SSP) is a specialised independent boarding school and statutory board under the purview of Ministry of Culture, Community and Youth of the Government of Singapore that offers an integrated sports and academic programme t ...

. Upon graduation from Singapore Sports School, Kang entered

Nanyang Technological University The Nanyang Technological University (NTU) is a national research university in Singapore. It is the second oldest autonomous university in the country and is considered as one of the most prestigious universities in the world by various inte ...

to pursue his undergraduate degree in sport science and management in 2011 before deciding to defer his studies to train professionally in 2013.

Career

He represented Singapore at the

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in the 100m sprint and placed 6th in his heat without advancing to the second round. He ran a time of 10.73 seconds, 0.2 seconds outside his national junior record time of 10.53 seconds. Kang has represented Singapore at four major competitions –

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(

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, 2007), Summer Olympic Games (

, 2008),

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(

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, 2010) and

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(

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, 2010), making him the only Singaporean athlete to do so before the age of 20. In the

2011 Southeast Asian Games The 2011 Southeast Asian Games, ( id, Pesta Olahraga Asia Tenggara 2011) officially known as the 26th Southeast Asian Games, or the 26th SEA Games, and commonly known as Jakarta-Palembang 2011, was a Southeast Asian multi-sport event held from ...

held in

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, Kang ran in the 4 × 100 m relay with his teammates and achieved the silver medal with a timing of 39.91 seconds. In August 2013, Kang was the sole representative of Singapore in the

IAAF World Championships The World Athletics Championships (until 2019 known as the World Championships in Athletics) are a biennial athletics competition organized by World Athletics (formerly IAAF, International Association of Athletics Federations). Alongside the Ol ...

2013 held in

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. Clocking a time of 10.52 seconds in the men's 100m event, Kang finished first in heat 4 of the preliminaries and equalled his personal best. He later ran a time of 10.66 seconds in his heat. In the

2015 Southeast Asian Games The 2015 Southeast Asian Games ( ms, Sukan Asia Tenggara 2015; ; ta, 2015 தென்கிழக்கு ஆசிய விளையாட்டுப் போட்டிகள்), officially known as the 28th Southeast Asian Games, or ...

held in Singapore, Kang and his team, consisting of Muhammad Amirudin, Lee Cheng Wei and

Gary Yeo Yeo Foo Ee Gary (born 30 August 1986) is a former track and field sprint athlete who competes internationally for Singapore. Yeo is a 5-time SEA Games Silver medalist and the 2012 ASEAN University Games 100m Champion. Yeo also represented Sing ...

, set a new national record of 39.24 seconds for the 4 × 100 m relay, beating the previous record of 39.45 seconds. The timing earned them a silver medal, narrowly losing the gold medal to the Thai team. Kang also ran a personal best 100m timing of 10.47 seconds, but missed out on a podium placing as he came in 4th. Kang has had the backing of several notable sponsors such as MILO (under Nestle Singapore) from 2008 to 2014 and 100PLUS in 2015 to present. He has been featured prominently in their campaigns, and was affectionately known as the "MILO boy" for the duration of his MILO sponsorship. Besides excelling at athletics, Kang has ventured into several entrepreneurship undertakings, such as the director of community partnerships i
Shiok SG
a local social enterprise, and the lead trainer at The Impressionist, an agency that specialises in imparting interview skills.

References

External links

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Calvin Kang Interview
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kang, Calvin 1990 births Living people Singaporean male sprinters Olympic athletes of Singapore Athletes (track and field) at the 2008 Summer Olympics Victoria School, Singapore alumni Singapore Sports School alumni Athletes (track and field) at the 2010 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Asian Games Athletes (track and field) at the 2014 Commonwealth Games Commonwealth Games competitors for Singapore World Athletics Championships athletes for Singapore Asian Games competitors for Singapore Southeast Asian Games medalists in athletics Southeast Asian Games silver medalists for Singapore Competitors at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games Competitors at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games