Thum Ping Tjin

Quick Facts

Full Name	Thum Ping Tjin
Occupation	Swimmer
Date Of Birth	Dec 17, 1979(1979-12-17)
Age	45
Country	Singapore
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Thum Ping Tjin Biography

Thum Ping Tjin is one of the most popular and richest Swimmer who was born on December 17, 1979 in Singapore. Olympic swimmer who was one of the first Singaporean swimmer to cross through the English Channel in 2005.

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Thum Ping Tjin (Chinese: 覃炳鑫 ; pinyin: Tán Bǐng Xīn ) (born 17 December 1979), also known as PJ Thum, is a former national swimmer, a former research fellow at the University of Oxford and read history at his alma mater. He was the coordinator of Project Southeast Asia, a collective of scholars of Southeast Asia at the University of Oxford. The first Singaporean to swim the English Channel, he represented his country in four swim races at the 1996 Summer Olympics.

At the age of 16, Thum represented Singapore in four swim races at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta:

The younger brother of his was part of Singapore’s national swimming team.

Thum Ping Tjin Net Worth

Thum Ping Tjin is one of the richest Swimmer from Singapore. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Thum Ping Tjin 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

He started studying at Harvard when he was just 16 years old. He graduated in the year 2000.

He was a representative of Singapore in his 1997 Summer Olympics at Atlanta.

Born on 17 December 1979 in Singapore, Thum received his early education at five of the Anglo-Chinese Schools.

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On 29 March, the last day of the sitting of the Select Committee, Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam questioned Thum about a paper he published in 2013 regarding Operation Coldstore and the formation of Malaysia. He said Thum fell short of the standards of an objective historian, saying that he “ignores evidence which you don’t like, you ignore and suppress what is inconvenient and in your writings you present quite an untrue picture”. Thum countered that his paper had been peer-reviewed and that no historian had stepped forward to contradict the central thrust of his work.

Facts & Trivia

Thum Ranked on the list of most popular Swimmer. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Singapore. Thum Ping Tjin celebrates birthday on December 17 of every year.

On 30 August 2018, Thum, Tan Wah Piow and others met Mahathir Mohamad, the Prime Minister of Malaysia, and asked him to take a lead role in promoting democracy in Southeast Asia. This prompted Seah Kian Peng, a Singaporean Member of Parliament, to post on Facebook that “it appears quite clear to me that Thum does not wish Singapore well”; some people also called Thum a “traitor” online. Law and Home Affairs Minister K. Shanmugam commented that to invite “a foreign politician, to intervene in our domestic politics … is an absolute no no”. Thum rejects the notion that he is a traitor.

Top Facts about Thum Ping Tjin

1. Thum Ping Tjin is a Singaporean historian and activist.
2. He was a national swimmer in his youth.
3. Thum holds a PhD from the University of Oxford.
4. He founded Project Southeast Asia, a research initiative.
5. Thum is known for his controversial views on Singapore’s history.
6. In 2018, he was summoned by the government for questioning.
7. Thum has been criticized by some for being anti-establishment.
8. He has written several books on Southeast Asian history and politics.
9. Thum advocates for greater political freedom in Singapore.
10. He has spoken at international conferences and events around the world.