Timothee Yap Jin Wei (; born 5 November 1994) is a

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an sprinter. He has represented Singapore at several major international competitions across the various age categories and at the senior level. He competed at the 2016 Summer Olympics in the men's 100 metres race; his time of 10.79 seconds in the second round did not qualify him for the semifinals.

Athletics

Yap took part in the

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at the

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where he participated in the 100m sprint. In the preliminaries, he clocked a time of 10.84s and finished second in Heat 3. He then qualified for Round 1 in heat 7 where he raced with

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. He was ranked 9th with a time of 10.79s, which was faster than the preliminaries.

Showbiz career

In September 2016, NoonTalk Media and Yap completed a contract. Yap debuted in the Mediacorp Toggle's

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''2589 Days Apart'', together with

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as the female lead.

Personal life

Yap is a graduate of the National University of Singapore with a Bachelor of Laws (Honours) (LL.B.).

Filmography

References

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Timothee Yap
at NoonTalk Media 1994 births Living people Singaporean male sprinters Olympic athletes of Singapore Athletes (track and field) at the 2016 Summer Olympics {{Singapore-athletics-bio-stub