Soh Rui Yong receives French name on SEA Games race bib, Vanessa Lee gets half of her Chinese name

Singapore distance runner Soh Rui Yong and several fellow national athletes were left amused after discovering their names had been incorrectly printed on their Southeast Asian (SEA) Games race bibs, with some receiving only fragments of their names or entirely unexpected ones.

Despite the mix-up, the athletes took the situation in good humour, noting that their race numbers — the most crucial detail — were printed correctly.

SEA Games athletes receive race bibs with wrong names

On 10 Dec, Soh and other Singapore athletes, who were in Thailand for the SEA Games, were collecting their race bibs when the discrepancies came to light.

At the collection point, Soh immediately noticed something amiss.

His bib name read “Guillaume”, which is his French name.

Speaking to MS News, the 34-year-old runner said he burst out laughing upon seeing it and began filming his teammates’ reactions to their own bibs.

Several other Singapore athletes encountered similar issues.

For instance, national 800m record holder Thiruben Thana Rajan found that his bib read only “Rajan”.

“That’s my dad’s name — my dad’s running tomorrow,” he joked.

Meanwhile, 3,000m steeplechase record holder Vanessa Lee received a bib with the name “Zhuang” — the second half of her Chinese name.

“This is what my mom calls me...