Goh Chui Ling

Goh Chui Ling

Goh competing in 2022
Personal information
National team	Singapore
Born	(1992-11-27) 27 November 1992 (age 32)[1] Singapore
Sport
Sport	Athletics
Event(s)	400m, 800m, 1500m, 5000m, 10,000m
Medal record Women's Athletics Representing  Singapore Southeast Asian Games 2021 Vietnam 1500 metres 2021 Vietnam 800 metres 2021 Vietnam 10,000 metres 2023 Cambodia 1500 metres 2023 Cambodia 800 metres

Goh Chui Ling (born 27 November 1992) is a national track and field athlete from Singapore specialising in middle-distance events.^[2] She was a member of the 4x400 women's team and 4x400 mixed team that set the current national records.^[3] She also holds the national record for the women's 1,500m, 2.4 km, 3,000m, 5,000m, and women's 5km and 10km (road).^[4]

Sporting career

Goh started track and field training when she was 13 years old, when she was pursuing her Singapore-Cambridge GCE Ordinary Level at Macpherson Secondary School. She chose track and field because her two older sisters were also competing in track and field events. She started as a high jumper in secondary school, winning gold at the National Track and Field Championship in 2008.^[5] She participated again in the High Jump at the ASEAN Schools Track and Field Championship in 2008, in Danang. When Goh was in Hwa Chong Junior College and National University of Singapore, she branched out into sprints as well.^[6]

Sprint

While studying in NUS, Goh was a recipient of the NUS Sports Scholarship. She was invited to the national senior squad in 2013, and participated in the 400m at the 2013 South-East Asian Games in Naypyidaw.^[7] Subsequently, she participated in other major games, such as 2014 Asian Games in Incheon, 2015 Southeast Asian Games and 2016 ASEAN University Games in Singapore, 2017 Asian Athletics in Bhubaneswar, and 2017 Southeast Asian Games in Kuala Lumpur. At the 2015 South-East Asian Games, together with Dipna Lim Prasad, T. Piriyah, and Veronica Shanti Pereira - the team broke the 41-year-old 4 × 400 m record.^[8]

Long distance

On 23 January 2021, Goh raced in the 5,000m for the first time, clocking 17:55.47, which was just outside the SEA Games qualifying mark of 17:52.16.^[9] On 17 October 2021, she set a new national mark for 10 km (road) with a time of 37:17.50, breaking the previous mark by 51.50s.^[10] A month later, she ran 36:28 for the same event at the Foulee Venissiane race in Lyon.^[4] In the same year, she also set personal bests for the 800m (2:09.42) and 1,500m (4:32.56).^[1] On 9 January 2022, Goh broke the national record for the 2.4 km with a time of 7:58.50 at the Pocari Sweat Run.^[4]

At the 2021 Southeast Asian Games, Goh won the bronze in the 1500m, clocking 4:33.41;^[11] this was then upgraded to a silver following a finding of doping against the original silver medallist.^[12] She also won the bronze in the 10,000m, clocking 39:22.26, though the latter was only awarded after the Singapore delegation lodged a protest against a Vietnamese runner who came in initially won the silver medal and was disqualified for wearing unapproved shoes.^[13]

On 16 July 2022, Goh broke the national record for 1,500m at the Flanders Cup in Belgium, clocking 4:27.26, almost 4 seconds faster than the previous record of 4:31.20 set by Kandasamy Jayamani in 1982.^[14] On 7 August, she also broke Jayamani's 3,000m record of 9:56.6s by clocking 9:51.16s at the Neustadter Laufermeeting in Germany.^[15] This was her seventh national mark, including two relay records.^[15] Goh rewrote her national mark for the 1,500m at the 2023 Southeast Asian Games in Phnom Penh when she came in third with a time of 4:26.33.^[12] In the same games, she won bronze for 800m with a time of 2:09:15.^[16]

On 6 June 2024, Goh broke Yvonne Danson's 27-year-old national record in the 5,000m when she clocked 17m 33.73s in Munich.^[17]

Legal career

Goh graduated from the Faculty of Law from the National University of Singapore in 2016,^[18] and she was called as an Advocate & Solicitor in the Supreme Court of Singapore in 2017. She joined Edmond Pereira Law Corporation, specialising in civil and criminal litigation. She has been involved in criminal cases, involving corruption, cheating, and breach of international sanctions^[19][20] and civil litigation at the Court of Appeal of Singapore.^[21]

Goh graduated from Melbourne Law School in 2021 with a Master of Laws and continued with her research for a Doctor of Philosophy with Melbourne.^[22] She has been a visiting researcher with National University of Singapore^[23] and the Centre for Asian Legal Studies, and has widely published widely on sports law (including peer-reviewed articles), on topics such as disability sports,^[24] anti-doping,^[25] e-sports,^[26] human rights in sports,^[27] gender eligibility,^[28] and has spoken on sports law at international seminars.^[29]

Goh is on the board of Chiam See Tong Sports Fund, a Singaporean sports charity.^[30]

References

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2. "FCBC's Star Athlete - Goh Chui Ling".
3. "Active Records (In-line with World Athletics)".
4. Auto, Hermes (9 January 2022). "Athletics: Goh Chui Ling rewrites women's 2.4km national best at Pocari Sweat Run | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com.
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8. migration (11 June 2015). "SEA Games: Singapore women's 4x400m runners smash 41-year national record". The Straits Times. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
9. Auto, Hermes (23 January 2021). "Athletics: Goh Chui Ling narrowly misses out on SEA Games qualification in women's 5,000m | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com.
10. Auto, Hermes (18 October 2021). "Athletics: Goh Chui Ling clocks national best performance in women's 10km road | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com.
11. "SEA Games: Goh Chui Ling takes bronze in women's 1,500m; Singapore's first athletics medal in Hanoi | the Straits Times". The Straits Times. 14 May 2022.
12. cue (9 May 2023). "SEA Games 2023: Soh Rui Yong finishes fourth in 5,000m in Games return | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 10 May 2023.
13. "SEA Games: Silver for Shanti Pereira in women's 100m | the Straits Times". The Straits Times. 18 May 2022.
14. Auto, Hermes (17 July 2022). "Athletics: Goh Chui Ling breaks 40-year women's 1,500m national mark | The Straits Times". www.straitstimes.com. Retrieved 18 July 2022.
15. Chia, Laura (6 August 2022). "Athletics: It's really not impossible, says Goh Chui Ling as PhD student sets 3,000m national mark | the Straits Times". The Straits Times.
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17. https://www.straitstimes.com/sport/national-runner-goh-chui-ling-breaks-27-year-women-s-5000m-national-record
18. "NUS - Faculty of Law : Asia's Global Law School". law.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
19. "Edmond Pereira Law Corporation". Retrieved 21 July 2018.
20. "Singaporean at heart of NK Pro investigation charged with sanctions violations | NK News - North Korea News". NK News - North Korea News. 20 July 2018. Retrieved 21 July 2018.
21. Judgment in Rohini d/o Balasubramaniam v. HSR International Realtors Pte Ltd [2018] SGCA 37
22. "Chui Ling Goh - Latest research stories and news | Pursuit by The University of Melbourne". pursuit.unimelb.edu.au. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
23. "Chui Ling GOH". law.nus.edu.sg. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
24. Goh, Chui Ling (1 April 2020). "To what extent does the Paralympic Games promote the integration of disabled persons into society?". The International Sports Law Journal. 20 (1): 36–54. doi:10.1007/s40318-020-00164-w. hdl:11343/265892. ISSN 2213-5154. S2CID 213841881.
25. Goh, Chui Ling (1 April 2021). "The challenge of regulating doping and non-doping 'performance-enhancing strategies' in elite sports". The International Sports Law Journal. 21 (1): 47–61. doi:10.1007/s40318-021-00183-1. hdl:11343/265894. ISSN 2213-5154. S2CID 232163940.
26. Goh, Chui Ling (1 December 2021). "The social licence to operate in esports: The glorification of violence, discrimination, and gaming addiction in esports". Australian and New Zealand Sports Law Journal. 14 (1): 139–161.
27. Goh, Chui Ling (2021). "Rule 50 Of The Olympic Charter And The Right To Freedom Of Expression". SSRN Electronic Journal. doi:10.2139/ssrn.3833327. ISSN 1556-5068.
28. Goh, Chui Ling; Hessert, Björn (2021). "Gender Fluidity in Sports". International Sports Law Review. 2. Sweet & Maxwell: 20.
29. "Asser International Sports Law Blog | [Video] Rule 50 of the Olympic Charter and the Right to Free Speech of Athletes - Zoom In Webinar - 14 July 2021". www.asser.nl. Retrieved 22 February 2022.
30. "Chui Ling Goh (Ling) - LawInSport". www.lawinsport.com. Retrieved 30 March 2022.