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First Sportsman Of The Year |
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Sports - Swimming |
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Tan Thuan Heng won the first Sportsman of the Year award in 1968. He was the first Anglo-Chinese School swimmer to become an Olympian in 1964, and the first swimmer to win the Rhodes Scholarship in 1971. In 1969, Tan set a national record in the 100m freestyle event with a time of 56.3 sec. This record remained unbroken until 1977. |
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