Joan Poh
Personal information
Born (1991-04-14) 14 April 1991
Singapore
Sport
SportRowing
Medal record
Women's rowing
Representing  Singapore
Southeast Asian Games
Bronze medal – third place2015 Singapore1,000m women’s coxless pair

Joan Poh OLY (born 14 April 1991) is a Singaporean rower. She competed in the 2020 Summer Olympics.[1]

Poh studied nursing at Nanyang Polytechnic and National University of Singapore[2] and works as a nurse in the renal unit of Tan Tock Seng Hospital.[3]

Poh had represented Singapore at the 2011 Southeast Asian Games in dragon-boating but did not win any medals.[4] She subsequently picked up rowing just before the 2015 Southeast Asian Games and represented Singapore in the 1,000m women’s coxless pair with Joanna Chan where they won the bronze medal.[4]

At the 2021 FISA Asia & Oceania Olympic Qualification Regatta in Tokyo, Japan, Poh placed 12th but Singapore received an invitation from World Rowing to send her to the Games, as the next highest-ranked nation vying for qualification.[3] On her Olympics debut, Poh finished 28th out of 32 athletes in the women's single sculls event.[5]

References

  1. ↑ "Rowing - POH Joan". Tokyo 2020 Olympics. Tokyo Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games. Archived from the original on 27 July 2021. Retrieved 23 July 2021.
  2. ↑ "I'm not the Jill of all trades, says dragonboater, sailor and rower Joan Poh". TODAYonline. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  3. 1 2 May, Tiffany (20 July 2021). "Between nursing shifts, a Singapore rower trained for the Olympics". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 21 June 2023.
  4. 1 2 "Rowing's promising debut may help grow sport in Singapore". sg.news.yahoo.com. Retrieved 26 July 2021.
  5. ↑ "Rowing: Singapore's Joan Poh finishes 28th overall in single sculls competition at Tokyo Olympics". TODAY. Retrieved 21 June 2023.


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