Pebbyl Ang

Name: Pebbyl Ang

Name in Chinese/Tamil Character: 洪竟雅

Date of birth: 01-04-2007

Height: 159 cm

Current School: CHIJ St Nicholas Girls’ School (Secondary)

Age began gymnastics and reason for starting: 7 years old, took inspiration from my mother as she used to be an artistic gymnast.

First Club: Marymount Convent School (School team)

First Coach: Tan Jun

Current Club: National Training Centre

Current Coach: Anastasia Fokina

Favourite apparatus: Clubs

Favourite skill: Multiple turning split leaps

Most difficult skill to learn so far: Penche side rotation

Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: National Championships 2021 – Clubs 14.050

Sporting motto or saying: Keep clam

Most admired sports person: Linoy Ashram

Who is your favourite gymnast and why? Linoy Ashram, I like her because I like her style of performing rhythmic gymnastics and she is inspiring.

Favourite music: English and Korean pop

Favourite movie: Maze Runner

My favourite local dish: Kaya toast with hot milo

My main support group: Family and friends

If I was not an athlete, I would like to be... A doctor

Top 3 items in my bucket list includes... Going on a road trip in a foreign country with my family/friends and travelling overseas.

I love to hang out at... because... I don’t have a particular place I like to hang out at, but I love to hang out with my sister and friends as it is fun being with them.

One interesting fact that most people do not know about me is... I can speak a bit of Japanese.

Any other pre-competition routines that you practice besides warm up? Listening to my routine music beforehand.

What is the greatest challenge you have faced in your sporting career? How did you overcome that?

Chronic knee injury that lasted for 1 year. I learnt hoe to deal with it by rehabilitation regularly and making sure that I was doing everything I could to make sure it would heal as fast as it could.