Toh Liying
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| Nickname | Toh | |||||||||||||||||
| Nationality |  Singapore | |||||||||||||||||
| Born | 2 April 1985 Singapore | |||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.57 m (5 ft 2 in) | |||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 52 kg (115 lb) | |||||||||||||||||
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| Class | Dinghy | |||||||||||||||||
| Club | National Optimist Sailing Scheme | |||||||||||||||||
| Coach | Craig Ferris (AUS) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Toh Liying (born 2 April 1985), also known as Toh Liying, is a Singaporean former sailor, who specialized in the two-person dinghy (470) class.[1] Together with her 17-year-old partner Deborah Ong, she was named one of the country's top sailors in the double-handed dinghy for the 2008 Summer Olympics, finishing in a distant nineteenth place.[2] Outside her Olympic career, Toh and her previous tandem Elizabeth Ong gave the Singaporeans a sterling silver medal in the women's 470 at the 2006 Asian Games in Doha, Qatar.[3] While pursuing to complete her degree in biomedical sciences at Monash University in Melbourne, Australia, Toh trained for the Games under the tutelage of her personal coach Craig Ferris.[4]
Toh competed for the Singaporean sailing squad, as a skipper in the women's 470 class, at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing.[5] Building up to their Olympic selection, she and crew member Ong received a spare berth forfeited by New Zealand, as the next highest-ranked tandem vying for qualification, at the class-associated Worlds nearly eight months earlier in Melbourne. The inexperienced Singaporean duo clearly struggled to catch a vast fleet of world-class sailors under breezy conditions. [6][7]
