Jeevaneesh Soundararajah is a Singaporean athlete. He represented Singapore in the men's

5000 metres The 5000 metres or 5000-metre run is a common long-distance running event in track and field, approximately equivalent to or . It is one of the track events in the Olympic Games and the World Championships in Athletics, run over laps of a sta ...

at the 2015 Southeast Asian Games and

1500 metres The 1500 metres or 1,500-metre run (typically pronounced 'fifteen-hundred metres') is the foremost middle distance track event in athletics. The distance has been contested at the Summer Olympics since 1896 and the World Championships in Athle ...

at the

2021 Southeast Asian Games ) , caption = , host city = Hanoi, Vietnam , nations participating = 11 , athletes participating = 5,467 , events = 526 in 40 sports , opening ceremony = 12 May 2022 , closing ceremony ...

. On 8 January 2022, he won the Pocari Sweat 2.4 km challenge with a national mark of 6:52.97; he lowered this mark by 2 seconds in the second edition of the race seven months later. In April 2022, he won the bronze in the 1500 metres at the Singapore Open with a time of 4:00.99. As a schoolboy, he won the 1500 metres and cross-country events at the "A" Division National School Games, and was the first person to go below 15 minutes for the latter.

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