Kevin Lim (sailor)

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Kevin Lim
Personal information
Full nameLim Leong Keat
NationalityMalaysian
Born (1976-09-27) 27 September 1976 (age 46)
Petaling Jaya, Malaysia
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Weight80 kg (176 lb)
Sailing career
Class(es) Dinghy
ClubWoollahra Sailing Club
Medal record
Men's sailing
Representing Flag of Malaysia.svg  Malaysia
Asian Games
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 1998 Bangkok Laser
Silver medal icon (S initial).svg 2002 Busan Laser

Kevin Lim Leong Keat (born 27 September 1976) is a Malaysian former sailor, who specialized in the Laser class. [1] He bagged two silver medals at the Asian Games (1998 and 2002) and became the first-ever Malaysian athlete in history to compete in four editions of the Summer Olympic Games (1996, 2000, 2004, and 2008). [2] [3] Before retiring from the sport in late 2008, Lim trained most of his career at the Woollahra Sailing Club in Sydney, Australia. [4]

Lim became the first Malaysian sailor to compete at the Olympics, making his debut as a 20-year-old in Atlanta 1996. There, he finished thirty-eighth overall in the inaugural Laser class with a net grade of 300. [5] At the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney, Lim endured most of the races almost at the rear end of the field before finding his form to notch a second-place finish on the last leg, vaulting him to twenty-second overall with 145 net points. [6]

Lim's sailing career thrived in the 2002 season, when he managed to repeat a silver-medal finish from Bangkok four years earlier at the Asian Games in Busan, South Korea, trailing the host nation's Kim Ho-kon by a seven-point deficit. [7] [8] Lim continued his Olympic quest for the third time with a twenty-fourth overall placement in Athens 2004, accumulating a net grade of 220. [9]

Lim sought to bid for a golden finish at his fifth Asiad in 2006, but a yachting malfunction at the very start of the series slipped him off the podium to fourth in the Laser class. Unable to deliver a medal, Lim was excluded from the elite program for national athletes under the Malaysian Sports Council that forced him to skip the 2007 Worlds and pursue a full-time stint as a qualified doctor instead. [2] [10]

Twelve years after competing in his maiden Games, Lim qualified for his fourth Malaysian team, as a 31-year-old, in the Laser class at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. He finished fifteenth out of 52 sailors competing in the silver fleet to secure one of the ten quota places available at the Worlds six months earlier in Terrigal, New South Wales. [2] [11] Amid a black flag disqualification on the opening leg, Lim put together a sensational effort to finish the ten-race series in thirty-eighth position with a net grade of 249. [12]

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References

  1. ↑ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Kevin Lim". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 Lim, Teik Huat (14 February 2008). "Sailor is first Malaysian to qualify for four Olympic Games". The Star . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  3. ↑ "#MalaysiaMondays – A (very) brief sailing history". World Sailing. 14 December 2015. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  4. ↑ "Woollahra Sailing Club to represent at Worlds'". Sail World. 3 May 2005. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  5. ↑ "Atlanta 1996: Sailing – Men's Laser Class". Atlanta 1996 . LA84 Foundation. p. 458. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  6. ↑ "Sydney 2000: Sailing – Men's Laser Class". Sydney 2000 . LA84 Foundation. p. 131. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  7. ↑ "Battle On In Doha". World Sailing. 4 December 2006. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  8. ↑ Lim, Teik Huat (14 November 2006). "Sailing Doctor Kevin bids to end Asiad campaign on golden note". The Star . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  9. ↑ "Sailing: Mixed Laser Class". Athens 2004 . BBC Sport. 15 August 2004. Retrieved 31 January 2013.
  10. ↑ Lim, Teik Huat (12 June 2007). "Olympic dream sinks for Kevin". The Star . Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia . Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  11. ↑ "Malaysian sailor qualifies for fourth Olympics". Times of Malta. 16 February 2008. Retrieved 21 March 2020.
  12. ↑ "Beijing 2008: Men's Laser Class". Beijing 2008 . NBC Olympics. Archived from the original on 28 July 2012. Retrieved 13 September 2013.
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