Name: Samuel Loh
Date of birth: 05-11-2009
Height: 165 cm
Current School: Bukit Merah Secondary School
Age began gymnastics and reason for starting: Started at 5 years old and started because my siblings all did gymnastics.
First Club: Prime Gymnastics Club
First Coach: Coach Yang Yong
Current Club: National Training Centre
Current Coach: Coach Park
Favourite apparatus: Parallel Bars
Favourite skill: Tippelt
Most difficult skill to learn so far: Adler
Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: Scored 11.800 on the Floor Exercise.
Most admired sports person: Zou Jingyuan
Who is your favourite gymnast and why? Minami Kazuki because of his landings.
Favourite music: Japanese pop
Favourite movie: Johnny English
My favourite local dish: My favourite local dish is Chicken rice because I enjoy all the ingredients that are put together to make this dish.
My main support group: My parents and gymnastics friends
If I was not an athlete, I would like to be... A competitive badminton player.
Top 3 things on my bucket list:
- Particpate in SEA Games
- Participate in Asian Games
- Participate in Commonwealth Games
I love to hang out at... because... I love to hang out at my friends house because I feel comfortable there.
One interesting fact that most people do not know about me is... I have four sisters.
What is the greatest challenge you have faced in your sporting career? How did you overcome that?
Sometimes it is difficult to find motivation to train when you stop improving that can really question yourself why you are still training but we just need to trust the process in training and don't give up.