 Quek with his bronze medal at the 2023 SEA Games | ||||||||||||||||||
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| Born | 26 February 1996 [1] | |||||||||||||||||
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| Country | Singapore | |||||||||||||||||
| Sport | Athletics | |||||||||||||||||
Event | 400 metres hurdles | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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Calvin Quek Jun Jie is a Singapore sprinter who specialises in the 400m and 400m hurdles. As a schoolboy, Quek was a perennial medallist at National Schools in both events. [2] He first broke the 400m hurdles national record in February 2022 with a time of 51.73s at a Southeast Asian Games Trial. [3] Subsequently, at the SEA Games in Hanoi, he rewrote his national record with a time of 51.19s and became the first Singaporean to win a SEA Games medal in the event since 1969. [4] At the 2023 SEA Games in Phnom Penh, he ran 50.75s to secure a bronze again. [5] At the same competition, he was part of the 4x400m quartet that broke the national record. [6] In the World University Games, he ran 50.43s to rewrite his 400m hurdles national record. [1] Other competitions Quek had previously competed in include the 2022 Commonwealth Games [7] and 2022 Asian Games. [1] In August 2025, Quek rewrote his 400m hurdles record twice: first in Kyoto (50.24s), and subsequently in Yokohoma (49.75s).
