Tahnee Baragona

Name: Tahnee Baragona

Name in Chinese Character: 塔尼 巴拉戈纳

Date of Birth: 08-08-2007

Height: 165cm 

Current School: Singapore American School

Age began gymnastics and reason for starting: I was 3 years old when I started gymnastics. As a child I was always full of energy so my parents thought gymnastics would be a good way to use that energy.

First Club: Santa Barbara Gymnastics

Current Club: Gim Sports International

Current Coach: Coach Gilbert Mojica

Favourite apparatus: Floor Exercise

Favourite skill: Any type of twisting

Most difficult skill to learn so far: Triple twist

Personal Best Recorded and the Event in which it was recorded: Hardest skills I've competed, was during the most recent Singapore open of 2022. Where I competed my layout step out, 2 1/2, and tsukahara pike.

Major Sporting Achievements:

• Top 8 on three apparatus, SG Open Qualifiers, 2022
• Lion City Classic first on vault, 3rd AA, 2021
• SG Open 1st on beam, 2019

Sporting motto or saying: Just do it.

Most admired sports person: Sunisa Lee

Who is your favourite gymnast and why ?: Sunisa Lee, she's incredibly talented, the quality of her gymnastics is really high, and she seems like a very nice and genuine person.

Favourite movie: Brooklyn 99

My favourite local dish is: Mi Jiang Gui, cause I love chocolate and pancakes and having this with the chocolate rice tastes really good. Or peking duck cause I really like that as well.

My main support group consist of: My parents, teammates, and friends, (which also includes my teammates).

If I was not an athlete, I would like to be: I would probably be an artist. But even if I didn't do gymnastics, I'm sure I would be doing another sport, like track and field or soccer maybe.

One interesting fact that most people do not know about me is: I have two cats, Cheeto and Oreo :) And i'm a Taekwondo black belt

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

After competing my layout step out in 2021, there was another covid circuit breaker, and when I came back, I really struggled getting that skill back consistently. It took me a really long time and a lot of work to get it back, but thankfully now it's no issue at all.