Friday, April 3, 2009

ITU Asian Junior Select Camp

The 2009 ITU Asian Junior Camp ended on 23rd March in Singapore. After a week of intensive coaching and education the athletes return home with many new skills to match their dreams. Their sporting careers now lie ahead. New friendships were made among the athletes and the coaches and this camp once again provided an excellent learning and networking opportunity for everyone. With the 2010 Singapore Youth Olympic Games in the hearts and minds of all of the young athletes, they received firsthand experience of the culture and the sporting environment of Singapore.
Extracted from the ITU Website. Read more here

Three of Synergy Multi-Sport's coaches were involved in the ITU Junior Select Camp held from the 16th to 23rd March at the Singapore Sports School. Principal Coach, Eugene Lee was the Asian ITU Sport Development Coordinator and Local Camp Director, whilst Coach Fan Kai Ming and Coach Ungku Azhar represented Singapore and Malaysia respectively. As well, Coach Eugene had three of the five Singaporean athletes represented in this camp; Joel Wong, Samantha Ho and Lim Wei Qiang.

Samantha, Eugene, Joel

Thursday, April 2, 2009

Grace Qualifies for Ironman 70.3 Worlds

Synergy Multi-Sport athlete, Grace Chan Tse Chi finishes 5th in her age-group (30-34) at Ironman 70.3 Singapore and earned herself a slot to the Ironman 70.3 World Championships to be held later in November this year.
Grace is personally coached by Synergy Multi-Sport's Principal Coach, Eugene Lee. This weekend was Grace's second attempt at the Ironman 70.3 Singapore race and her 5th place finish was well enough to earn her a slot to the Ironman 70.3 World Championships in Clearwater, Florida. Come November 14th will be her second World Championships, two years in a row!