CHAN, Patricia Li-Yin
Sports Personalities of Singapore,
Accession Number 002629
- Oral History Centre
Source
- 18
Total Reels
- Denise Ng Hui Lin
Interviewer
- 10:43:16
Total Running Time
- English
Language
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Reel/Disc 8 of 18
Metadata
- 2 Apr 2015
Recording Date
- 00:37:35
Running Time
- MP3
Format
- Open Access
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Synopsis
Description of the Chinese Swimming Club (CSC) at Amber Road. Her personal interest in swimming. Training routines in the early days. Discovering her natural stroke in swimming.
Her father’s role as swim coach for her brothers and her. Amateur days of competitive swimming in Singapore. Details of her father’s commitment and how her father researched on training methods and applied them through trial and error in her early swimming days. Her relationship with her father during training days.
About the food she ate as an athlete. Anecdote about drinking Sustagen. Described the importance of nutrition for optimum performance. Weight issues athletes face.
Described how she went through adolescence while swimming competitively. How she had to face the media as a public figure since a young age. Physical changes to her body and how she felt during training days in the early 1960s.
The public’s perception of her. Her observation of how men behaved towards women in the early 1960s. Her father’s personality and command for respect.
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