Both Dione Tan and Sean Yeo participated in the Short Track Speed Skating Women’s 1,000m and Men’s 1,000m events respectively today.
Dione competed in Heat No. 7 and achieved the following results:
1. Luliia Beresneva (RUS) – 1:45.050
2. Mariya Gorbunova (KAZ) – 1:46.899
3. Dione Tan (MAS) – 1:47.536
4. Betty Moeske (GER) – 1:58.705
Overall, she was ranked 21 out of 29 skaters who participated in this event.
As for Sean, he competed in Heat No. 10 and achieved the following results:
1. Vladimir Balbekov (RUS) – 1:29.692
2. Natthapat Kancharin (THA) – 1:30.038
3. Sean Yeo (MAS) – 1:31.117
4. Matt Gardner (GBR) – 1:33.305
Overall, he was ranked 18 out of 32 skaters who participated in this event.
Although both of them did not qualify to compete in the following rounds, they had done their best for Malaysia.
The OCM would like to take this opportunity to congratulate Sean for having achieved his personal best timing of 1:31.117 in the Men’s 1,000m event.
Both Dione and Sean had demonstrated the spirit of Olympism as quoted by Baron Pierre de Coubertin:
“The most important thing in the Olympic Games is not winning but taking part; the essential thing in life is not conquering but fighting well.”
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Dato’ Sieh Kok Chi was born on the 8th of November 1938. After his retirement in 1991, as an Engineer in the Department of Irrigation and Drainage Malaysia, Dato’ Sieh chose to continue his involvement, full time, in the field of sports, where his life-long passion was, especially in the Olympic Council of Malaysia (OCM).
Born on 21st March 1949, Y.A.M Tunku Tan Sri Imran is the second son of the late Tuanku Jaafar, an elected monarch of the Negeri Sembilan. Tunku Imran was educated in the UK at the King’s School, Canterbury and studied law at Nottingham University before being called to the Bar at Gray’s Inn, London in 1971 and qualifying as a Barrister at Law.