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Singapore’s first Sportsboy of the Year Marc Tay dies aged 63 | The Straits Times
‘His heart was very big. I always looked up to him as an older brother,’ says former swimmer and teammate Oon Jin Teik. Read more at straitstimes.com.
His journey in the sport began when he was eight and he competed in various school-level competitions and meets, before donning national colours from 1973 to 1982.
He was one of the most promising swimmers in the Under-17 age group and in 1977, he clocked 56.08 seconds in the 100m freestyle at the Singapore Amateur Swimming Association National Age Group meet to rewrite the previous mark of 56.30sec.
Later that year, he became the first local swimmer to break the 56-second mark in
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