It was meant to be a celebratory meal after the Neustadter Laufermeeting in Germany on Friday but Singapore runner Goh Chui Ling’s dinner was literally as flat as a pizza.
The seafood pizza for her dinner with friends was not salty enough, the tomato sauce was of low quality and the seafood tasted a bit sour.
Fortunately for Goh, that was the only low point of an otherwise happy day for her as she achieved her fourth national record this year – this time in the 3,000m.
The 29-year-old clocked 9min 51.16sec in Neustadt an de Waldnaab, a small town in the southeast of Germany, to break K. Jayamani’s 40-year-old record of 9:56.6 set in 1982.
It was the first time Goh was racing in the 3,000m – a distance which is no longer on the programme at the Olympics and World Championships – and she was using it as preparation for the 2.4km Pocari Sweat Run Singapore on Aug 20.
This story is from the August 07, 2022 edition of The Straits Times.
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